Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1943 — Page 2

Italy and Japan from World Conquest Plans; Diplomats Saw Danger Signs Early.

By H. 0. THOMPSON United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, .Jan. 4.—America’s case toward pinning the war guilt on the axis powers was on record today with publication of an official white book by the state de-

partment,

In a series of diplomatic gid other documents, some of them previously secret, this government revealed how it had

ttempted through peaceful|” egotiations to dissuade Germany, Japan and Italy from ‘their course of world con‘quest. ‘The publication, entitled “Peace "and War,” showed that the United States through its diplomatic representatives abroad had been in . possession of advance information 4 ig axis plans and of the dangers which threatened this - eountry. Some of the material, although ~~ released officially for the first time, "had been reported last year in - United Press dispatches. This in- - eluded: A warning sent by Ambassador - Joseph C. Grew from Tokyo in Jan- - uary, 1941, that Japanese “planned 8 surprise mass attack on Pearl . Harbor in case of ‘trouble’ with the United States.” Japan’s proposal for a meeting ‘in the Pacific between President | Roosevelt and Premier Fumimaru | Konoye, rejected by the United ‘States because the Japanese government had given no evidence of ‘an ability to control the military clique. Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warnings to the army and navy to . be on their guard against a surprise attack by Japan.

Psychopathic? Said Messersmith

The white book also revealed how _ American diplomats in Germany ~ and Italy saw danger Signals there in the early “thirties.” Consul General George S. Messersmith, now the American ambassa‘dor in Mexico, reported from Ber- _ lin on June 26, 1933, that the men . running Germany were “psychopa_thic cases,” that they had no desire for peace except on their own _ terms, and that they were attempt- ' ing to make Germany “the most eapable instrument of war that has ever existed.” The ambassador to Rome, Breck-

inridge Long, predicted the invasion of Ethiopia a year before it occurred. Early in 1938, according to ‘the record, Secretary Hull “was proceeding on the theory that Germany was “bent on becoming the dominating colossus of continental Europe.” At the same time Hull was aware of Japan's intentions and told a friendly diplomat that he was convinced in August, 1937, that “Japan definitely contemplates securing domination over as many hundreds of millions of people as possible in Eastern Asia and gradually extending her controls through the Pacific islands to the Dutch East Indies and elsewhere, thereby dominating in practical effect that one-half of the world.” President Roosevelt, in messages to congress and in speeches, was attempting to acquaint the American people of the perils they faced from axis aggression. Secretary Hull, in speeches and statements, also warned of impending danger. ¥

Sought “Gradual Evolution” “Our {foreign policy necessarily

had to move within the framework

of a gradual - evolution of public opinion in the United States away from the idea of isolation,” the white book asserted. The white book is not a complete record of diplomacy during the past decade. It carries no mention, among other things, of: The "Soviet-Finnish conflict of 1938-39. Japan's offer of 1939 to participate in a world conference to avert war. The statement of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the fall of 1941 that he might have to sue for peace with Japan. The proposal for a 90-day truce or “breathing spell,” considered but never, officially offered to Japan during the tense days of the exploratory talks with Japan's emissaries in November, 1941.

All Nazi Newspapers Give Front Pages to Answer "U. S. White Paper.

By UNITED PRESS Berlin radio propaganda fumed today over the United States state department white paper demonstrating the war guilt of the axis and revealed that enough of it had already reached the German people to force a concentration of domestic propaganda upon refutation. The - propaganda broadcasts to neutral countrics' where the white paper had been conspicuously and and approvingly published, revealed the concern of the Nazi propagandists lest the German man in the street accept its proofs. Germans as a whole had not been informed of the context of the paper by their own newspapers and radios, of course. Berlin radio said Berlin newspapers were devoting their front pages to denunciation and refutation of the white paper. Transocean, a German propaganda news agency, said that for the “first time during this war,” all the Berlin papers devoted their front pages to “a political announcement of a foreign country.” The theme of the Nazi radio propaganda for foreign consumption and of the newspapers for domestic consumption, was that President Roosevelt was facing hostility because ¢f his “chaotic” war

vening Wednesday and the’ white paper was a “desperate” move on the part of “a trembling war inciter” to head off congressional action. , The Italian reaction, by contrast, was mild. Rome radio broadcast the summary of the diplomatic commentator of the Stefani agency who said the white paper was both incomplete and “based on entirely wrong assumptions.”

Millionaire Pilot Escapes Nazis LONDON, Jan. 4 (U. P.).—Acting Air Conimodore Willard Straight, 29, American-born mil-

lionaire, escaped from the Ger-

mdns in France by climbing a rope in a converted gymnasium, swinging through a window and overpowering a guard, the Sunday Chronicle said. Straight was forced down in France last August and his subsequent arrival in the Middle East

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of his wife’s film career. “I intend to be the breadwinner in my family,” he said. “Mrs. Sinkwich is not making movies .if 1°’ have anything to do about it.” Sinkwich said he would return Thursday to complete arrangements for his own appearance in a picture produced by Columbia studios but that his wife, Adeline, would not accept a proffered screen role. His assertion seemed to put an end to the series of conflicting statements about his wife and the movies. Mrs. Sinkwich and her sister, Dorothy Weatherly, were given a screen

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He'll Be the Breddwinner, Sinkwich Signals Better Half

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 4 (U. P.)~—Frankie Sinkwich, who has any|in a anne pocket in the neighbor - |! husband’s doubts about his wife’s prospects for a career, intends to be|hood of Gairopa Point, between th : the sole breadwinner in his family and has no sympathy with whatever|station and Cape Endaiadere, i film ambitions Mrs. Sinkwich may have. Boarding a plane for Washington last night, the Georgia football|tralian troops drove in on the Jap - star expressed himself in unequivocal terms on the neeriain status) anese from both sides. They joine. |

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only One Pocket Remi _ After Yanks, Aussi: Take Buna Station.

| MacARTHUR'S | HEADQUA': 7 ERS, Australia, Jan. 4 (U. F.) United States and Australian tro 1) under the personal direction Gen, Douglas MacArthur moves: day against Japan's last strong: SE DapuAn a of New on 2 "A “small, desperate enemy fc!

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pocketed in. a salient around Co:

| Sanananda, alone remained ‘to | fer organized resistance after a :: - ‘lage week-end drive in which {ae

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offered a part ins an Abbott and Costello film. She said Frankie lost his temper when he saw newspaper publicity photographs showing her in a scanty costume and that she’d have to refuse. Later she said that she was returning with Frankie to accept the part. Frankie has no confidence in nis own dramatic talents either. “Most of the football players: who have made movies to cash in on college fame were not much good as actors,” he said, “and I don’t think I'm any better. But it's a chance to make myself a nice nest egg before I go into the marines.” Sinkwich appears before the Walter Camp Memorial club at Wash-

Camp memorial cup.

MRS. SHAW FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TODAY

- Services for Mrs. Nora Shaw who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Homer C. Wolford, after a brief illness, will be at 1:30

p. m. today at Shirley Brothers Ir-

ving . Hill chapel. Internment will be in Memorial Park. Mrs. Shaw, who was 69, was the widow of Homer Shaw. Born near Vincennes, she came here about 20

years ago from Worthington, She was a member of the Presbyterian church and the Royal Neighbors

‘Lodge.

- Survivors are two sons, Allen and Clarence Shaw; Mrs, Wolford and another daughter, Mrs. Ross West and two grandchildren, all of Inand two. brothers, Lee Reel of Vincennes and John Reel of Glenwood; Iowa. :

RAF PLANES RAID '3 AREAS IN BURMA

'. NEW DELHI, Jan, 4 (U. P)— | British planes, engaged in an of-

fensive against Japanese bases in

1Burma, attacked three key areas

yesterday without loss. Fighters heavily attacked Japanese base villages in the Rathedaung area, 30 miles above Akyab

on the bay of Bengal coast where the British army has pushed into Burma, and started fires. : In Central Burma royal air force planes started fires in a factory building and in railroad cars at Monywa, 60 miles west of Mandalay, and destroyed trucks in a low level attack at Meiktila, 125 miles south of Mandalay.

CHARLES HOOVERS MARRIED 50 YEARS

Mr. and’ Mrs. Charles Hoover, 2018 Hobart ave., observed their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner New Year’s day.

and Richard, were - present with

| their families. Another son, Orville

Hoover, lives in Detroit, Mich., ‘and

{a daughter, Mss, Frieda Paley, lives 1i= Richiana Center, Wi. |

SET* NAVY, INTERVIEWS 2 DAYS

ington today to receive the Walter |

The couple’s twin sons, Wilbur |

The office of naval. “officer pro-|

jungle-hardened American tro¢

and their Australian veteran co: 0 |rades stormed and captured

te! Buna government station.

“Buna area—on the right we ba o ;

completed the destruction of © enemy’s defeated forces,” Gen.M: Arthur’s ‘communique said. losses have been heavy.

“The only remaining remnants | 3 'Q | J

the Japanese Papuan army confined in a narrow salient exter (- ing from Sanananda Point, whi h we are preparing to envelop, “The enemy's position is Tow hopeless.” Big Guns Used

In a general assault behind Gi Stuart tanks and artillery rangi: g up to 4-inch caliber the allici

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troops on Saturday broke the bac: |

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Buna government station and Cej : ;

Endaiadere to the south. With bayonet, hand grenade an 1 tommy gun, the allied troops slashe 1 into the enemy in swamp and coc¢ nut grove and on the beaches. The Buna government station wz occupied. The only Japanese !¢-

maining in that area were pinne i:

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TWO NAZI GENERALS DEAD

sent after them |

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 3. (Delayec!) || U. P.).—A Berlin dispatch to the | newspaper Dagbladet reported to- | day that Maj. Gen. Victor Koc | | commanding a German division on | ||| | the Russian front, had been killed

in action and Maj. Gen. Heinz von Randow, commanding a’ tank di-

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CHIANG MAY VISIT U. S. LONDON, Jan. 4 (U. P.)—Ex-

change Telegraph quoted axis bread - | |

casts today as saying Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek would visit Mos cow and Washington shortly. Seal —————————————————————————————————"

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