Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1941 — Page 7
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BY TOKYO BLUSTER|
America, Britain, Russia and Holland Better Prepared For Japanese Attack Than at Any Time Recently, Denny Reports.
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By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer *
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Washington is worried byl} Japan’s war preparations, but not half as-much as Tokyo
seems to think and wish.
Whether the present Oriental motions, including thel}
reported calling up of reservists, are merely part of the war of nerves or the real thing, the United States defenses in the Pacific are in better shape than ever before.
Formation of a “stronger” Cabinet, which the Emperor ‘again has entrusted to Prince " 4 Konoye and the Army-Navy dictators, is not apt to change American policy. Neither increased bluster by the new Cabinet, nor appointment of a less anti-American Foreign Minister than the retiring Matsuoka, would greatly impress Washington. From here out only Japan’s acts —not words or gestures—count. It is no secret that Washington and London -need and want a peaceful understanding # with = Tokyo. At f any time in recent i % months Japan could have made Mr. Denny"; honorable pact with the Pacific powers, but instead she preferred to work with Hitler and push her conquest south to the Singapore-Manila ares, As a result the American and British mood, though still open to negotiation, is much stiffer than before. While Japanese talk about their golden opportunity to profit by Pacific conquest while France is prostrate, Holland homeless, and Britain and Russia busy defending themselves against Hitler, the peak of the Far East scavenger boom is : probably past.
: Manila Less Fearful There was a time last spring when Bingapore was utterly unprepared. That has been corrected by elaborate anti-aircraft defenses, greatly reinforced garrisons, and multiplied
fighter and bomber forces. There was a time even more re@ently when Manila was uneasy. Now the new air base, though uncompleted, is in effective operation. Our air force there is of a kind the Japanese have never met and should not want to. . Equally important, the American and British and Dutch commands have a close co-operation technique workad out which was lacking last
spring. = Likewise in China, where the Nipponese armies are mired, the opportunity for easy pickings grows less. Until recently American aid to China was mostly talk. Now it is a flow of planes, machines, tools and technicians of many kinds—still less than needed, but growing. All of * which has raised Chinese morale to a new hign, in contrast to the warweary sag among the hungry people of Japan.
Is: U. 8. Fleet Weaker?
But the Tokyo militarists apparently like to blink these unpleasant facts in their premature rejoicing -over two new “breaks.” Those developments, so tempting to the-ag- , 8ressors, are: Russia’s exposure in Siberia while fighting Hitler, and the reported transfer of part of the u. S. Pacific fleet to the Atlantic. ~ Of course the actual strength of Siberian forces and of American naval and air forces within striking distance of the Far East are, and will remain, military secrets. But if Japan guesses that they are inadequate, she will be taking a tremendous gamble—one from which she probably never could recover if wrong. . There is no reason to believe that the strength of the U. S. Pacific fleet—counting air patrols and bomkers which probably have more than compensated for any ship transfers to the Atlantic—is such as te encourage the Japanese. And there is no reason to believe that the Siberian submarines and armies—
bombers within range of Tokyo—are unprepared for defense. So the real danger is not that others are unready; but that Japan, with such a long record of guessing wrong, may fool herself again. She guessed in 1937 that. the Chinese could not hold out. four months. After four years of war they are stronger, and she is weaker, than when she started. She guessed in 1939 that Hitler, with British blessing, would first attack Russia, so she got aboard the anti-Communist. bandwagon. But Hitler ditched her in favor of Stalin, and Britain fought Hitler. She guessed in 1940 that by joining the Axis alliance she could prevent American aid to Britain and China, and force American recognition of her Asiatic dictatorship. Instead she .forced the exact op-
posite. Fooled Again
She guessed in 1941—only three months ago—that by making a nonaggression deal with the hated Russia she should secure her northern flank while she drove south toward Singapore. But again Hitler has double-crossed her; again she has outsmarted herself. Because she has guessed wrong on every major choice in the last four years, she has completely isolated herself by making an enemy or potential enemy of all her neighbors—China, Russia, French Indo‘China, the Dutch East Indies, Britain and the United States. « Under the circumstances it would appear that Japan’s position is much weaker than that of the associated powers which she threatens north or south. That should be enough to restrain Japan from any war move. But hitherto she has been unwilling to admit, even to herself, that she is not strong enough to dominate Asia and the Pacific.
U. S. LOAN LEAGUE NAMES LOCAL MEN
Nine Indianapolis men have been named to committees of the United States Savings and Loan League. The committees will meet just before the 49th annual convention ef the League at Miami, Fla., Dec. 1-5. Named to the Financing Low Cost Housing committee were Fermor S. Cannon, president of Railroadmen’s Federal Savings and Loan Association, and Fred T. Green, president of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis. Mr. Cannon will serve as chairman. Mr. Greene also was chosen as chairman of the Committee on Housing. Other appointments were: Leo F. Welch, secretary of the Celtic Federal Savings and Loan Association, to the Economic Policies Committee; G. E. Ohmart, second vice president of the Federal Home Loan Bank, to the Cup Contest committee; W. F. Oldshue, of Railroadmen’s, to the Accounting Committee; W. D. Fitzpatrick, secretary of the Arsenal Building and Loan Association, to the Committee on Housing; Paul J. DeVault attorney for the Federal Home Loan Bank, to the . Attorneys’ Committee; Elmor F. C. Weber, executive secretary of the Peoples Mutual Savings and Loan Association, to the Committee on Admissions, and William N. Waltermire, of Railroadmen'’s, to the committee on Real Estate Management,
BRITISH PLANES BOMB SICILY ROME, July 18 (U. P.).—British planes last. night bombed Palermo, Sicily, wounding three persons, the Italian high command said today. British planes also had raided Benghazi and Derna in Libya. German and Italian planes bombed British fortifications at Tobruk, Libya, caus-
not to mention the Vladivostok
ing fires and explosions.
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