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HOW WE HELP JAPAN
TO CONQUER CHINA
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One American who is entitled
to be heard in connection with
the tangled situation in the Far
East, is the former Secretary of
State Henry L. Stimson.
Mr. Stimson was some six years
ahead of President Roosevelt in
the belief that this country sho
uld take peaceful but effective
measures to restrain the Japan
ese militarists. Unfortunately,
the British let him down with a
dull thud when he tried to trans
late his belief into action, and his
effort to preserve peace and the
sanctity of treaties in the Orient
failed.
But he knows the Chmese-Jap
anese situation as few Americans
know it; and when he wrote a
lengthy letter to the New York
Times the other day, setting forth
his ideas on the course America
ought to follow’, he said some
things which all Americans ought
to ponder.
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No one, says Mr. Stimson, can
argue that we should send troops
and warships to the Orient to re
strain the Japanese invasion by
force. The American people wou
Id never consent to such a step;
even if they did, China must
work out her owm salvation and
her problem cannot be salved by
outside intervention.
But that, he continues, does not
mean that we must fold our hands
•
, and passively watch the Japanese
complete their program of ag
gression. For as a matter of fact,
'Mr. Stimson, we are right now
| actively helping Japan—giving
her the help without which she
could not carry on the war.
Japan, he points out, depends
on the outside world for her abil
I ity to attack China. She has am
ple manufacturing facilities, but
she lacks vital raw materials—oil,
iron, rubber and cotton. These
she must buy abroad; she can pay
for them only by selling enough
of her owrn products to obtain the
requisite foreign exchange.
The principal product that she
has for sale in raw silk.
Keeping that in mind, says Mr.
Stimpson, note that America buys
upwards of 80 per cent of Japan’s
silk exports, with Britain buying
almos^. all of the rest. Further
more, Japan buys most of her
essential raw materials from Am
erica and England—75 per cent of;
her oil and 50 per cent of her
iron from America, practically all
of her rubber from England, 80
per cent of he cotton from the'
two nations combined.
* * *
It is this trade that makes her
war possible. As long as we
carry it on we are are helping in
the assault on China. And Mr.
Stimson asks:
“Is the condition of our states
manship so pitifully inadequate
that we cannot devise the simple
means of international co-opera-'
tion which would stop our partic
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ipation in this slaughter?"
We might profitably study our
■ government’s present foreign pol
! icy in the light of Mr. Stimson's
statement. It is a reminder that
we do not now face a choice be
1 tween keeping absolutely clear
;of the imbroglio or getting into it
! up to our necks. We are in it al
ready, and we must shape our
!course in the light of that fact.
i The President’s Chicago speech
* * *
has at least done one helpfttl
• thing. It has forced Americans
to do a little earnest thinking
. about the curse of war and the
way this modern world can es
cape it.
For when we start talking about
international co-operation to curb
aggressor nations, the next step
is to start talking about the
things that make nations aggres
sive. A peace which existed only
because one group of nations had
a stranglehold on another group
would not be a healthy or a last
ing peace. Only by removing the
auses of war can the world insure
itself effectively.
And that leads us into deep
waters. For the causes of war
nowadays are too complex to be
summed up in a sentence. It is
more or less customary to say
that the aggressor nations are thej
“have-nots”—the nations which
lack colonies, raw materials and
the other elements of prosperity
—and to say that they are being
driven to their aggressive tactics
by their imperative needs for
these things.
* * *
If that is true, then we do not
need an international quarantine
half so much as we need an inter
national dividing up. We cannot
hope to buy world peace at the
price of continued poverty on the
part of strong and ambitious peo
ples. The sensible course would
be to give them the things they
need before they take them by
force.
But—is it true, after all? Is
the economic plight of Japan, for
example, so dire and pressing
that it can be solved only by a
military conquest of China? Are i
Germany and Italy in such des
perate straits that their only re
course is to establish their hege
mony, by force of arms, over the ;
Spanish peninsula?
Before we try to answer such
questions, we ought to remember i
that the money spent on such
campaigns is in an economic sen-!
se, money wasted. It is money
diverted from productive purpos
es and poured down a rat-hole.
And it does seem reasonable to
suggest that such money might
very well have been used at home
to increase productivity and es
tablish better living conditions, if
the economic factor is as all-im
portant as it is said to be.
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Two Radiomen
Were Drowned
Sitka, Alaska
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Nov. 15th—Clarence
Jenkins of Seattle, and William
King of Los Angeles, both radio
men. attached to the Naval Air
Squadron 17, were drowned at
Sitka when the small boat which
they were rowing, capsized.
The squadron left Sand Point,
Seattle, October 1st, for maneuv
ers in Southeastern Alaska wat
ers. The bodies have been re
covered.
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Notice of Hearing and Settlement
of Final Account and Petition
For Distribution. No. 405.
In The Probate Court For The
Cape Nome Precinct, Territory i
of Alaska, Second Division.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JACOB S. WATTE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to whom
it may concern: •
. That the undersigned, admini
strator of the estate of JACOB S.
WATTE, deceased, has filed in
the said Court his final account
and report and petition for the
distribution of said estate and
that the l?th day of January,
1938, at the hour of 11 o’clock A.
M., of said date in the courtroom
of said Court at Nome, Alaska,
has been fixed by the order of
said Court as the time and place
for the hearing of the same and
objections thereto and the settle
ment thereof and that at said
time and place the Court will ad
judicate and determine who are
the heirs and distributees of said
deceased.
Dated this, the 15th day of
November, 1937.
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Administrator of the Estate
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NOTICE TO CRKDITOES
In the Probata Court for the
Cape Nome Precinct, Territory of
Alaska, Second Division.
In the matter of the Estate of
SOL L. LEWES, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned, Herbert Greenberg
has been appointed by the above
entitled court, administrator of
the Estate of Sol L. Lewis, de
ceased. All persons having claims
against the estate of said deceas
ed are hereby required to pre
sent the same, duly verified, to
the undersigned administrator of
said estate at Nome, Alaska with
in six months from the date of
this notice.
Dated at Nome, Alaska, this
1st day of November, 1937.
Herbert Greenberg
Administrator of the Estate of
Sol L. Lewis, deceased.
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