THE NOME NUGGET
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Japanese
Fairy Tale
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Once upon a time there were
■certain trustful souls who said.
"Don’t antagonize our friend?
the Japanese by cutting off their
oil supplies from the United
States. To do so will drive them
into Netherlands Indies and
spread the war in the Orient.”
Many Americans believed this
Japanese fairy tale spread by
friends of Tokyo and tourists
who had had tea with the Pre
mier or some other nabob of the
Mikado’s. And the oil continued
to flow so Japan could crush
America's friends. Chin3.
This was to bad, they reasoned,
but it was one evil and not two.
The Indies were still unmolested.
Then came the war in Europe,
find the Indies were cast adrift,
remaining loyal to the Nether
lands government in exile and be
coming an ally of Britain.
In the meantime Japan had
stored away a year's suppy of
petroleum for her fleet and her
®ir force. The oil continued to
come from opulent, but stupid
America. Japan moved into
French Indo-China and forced it
to became virtually a colony of
Tokyo. Malaya filled with troops
So the base at Singapore was by
passed by a Japanese trade mis
sion which established itself a
Batavia and opened negotiations
wiih the colonial Dutch.
Give us all the oil, rubber, qui
nine that Japan wants, said the
mission, broadly intimating that
the Mikado's fleet was unoccupi
ed for the moment and would
relish a cruise to the South
China Sea. Just a little more of
these materials, responded the
Dutch, provided Tokyo give as
surances that none of them will
reach Germany. This the Japan
ese refused and so the negotia
tions have broken down
The next step is obvious. In
creased military as well as dip
lomatic pressure will be exert
ed on the colony. Japan intends
to get the Indies as she obtained
Indo-China. Force will be used if
necessary. Only in the case of
the Indies the colonial govern
ment will fight.
What, in this drama, has be
come of that good fairy, that
angel of Oriental peace, the Am
erican policy of appeasing Japan
with oil and other war mater-'
ials? It has not only failed, like
all appeasement gestures, it has
en.-.blcd Japan to continue the
war in China and to build up the
<m: ans with which to attack the
Indies and other European posses
sions.
This may spell disaster to the
United States. From the Orient
this nation obtains not only the
bulk of its tin and rubber, but a
score of small yet important pro
ducts, without which t'he indus
trial might of America soon
would collapse. It is not too late
to retrieve this error. When it
comes to stamina in dealing with
•the aggressors of Asia, Washing
ton can learn much from Bat
avia.
WHAT THE WANT ADS
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To Sell that gun, furniture
baby carriage, coat, trunk at a
profit.
To Buy that ice box or rug,
piano or suit, car or accordian at
low cost.
To Rent that room, garage,
apartment or that house to de
sirable tenants.
THE NOME NUGGET
News in the World of Religion
By W. W. Reid
The International Missionary
Council reports that 95 mission
ary women and 37 children —
many of them from former Ger
man mission stations in Africa —
are interned in Jamaica. British
Indies. Many of these missionar
ies are from the Gold Coast and
Nigeria. Under the auspices of
the Council, the work of these
German mission families is being
carried on through national work
ers. Neighboring missionaries of
other countries are helping carry
on the stations, and some mis
sions have “loaned” a worker to
supervise medical, evangelistic
or educational institutions.
More than 800 church organiz
ations of the United States, con
ferences, synods, assemblies, etc..
including representative Protest
ant. Catholic and Jewish bodies,
have adopted resolutions or pre
sented petitions urging that the
American people be permitted to
pass through the British block
ade with food for the small demo
cracies of Europe now reported
-'tarving: especially Belgium. Hcl
land. Norway. Finland and cen
tra! Poland .These countries have
13.000.000 Protestants, 20.00.1.000
Catholics, and 3.500.000 Jew's. A!
most half the population are
children.
"The fastest growing Christian
parish in the world” is said to
be the diocese of the Bishop of
D rnakal—Dr. V. S. Azariah. In
d'.in bi iv p of the Agelican
Church — among the outcastes
and untouchables of southern
India. There are not less than
IT000 Indian converts admitted
into tlie churches of this diocese
each year. For many years this
missionary field has been under
the care of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel, one
of the earliest of British mission
bodies. The Society has stations
also in Ceylon and in many other
sections of India. Because of the
war situation in Britain, the Pro
testant Episcopal Church of the
United States has undertaken to
help support the work of these
Anglican stations.
Suggested =logan for the col
lection of oid aluminum: "Let’s
shew the Nazis we have some
scrap.”
\vniuI ^ Vi ? E ,.N.j P E ? T N—Mo‘or scooters were used to whisk Canada’s air marshal,
William A, Bishop (front sidecar), and party on tour of Consolidated Aircraft plant in San Diego.
FAIR ENOUGH
By Westbrook Pcgler
NEW YORK — Mark Sullivan
of the Herald Tribune outfit, my
colleague in punditry, has been
worrying about the American
party line, so to speak, now that
Hitler has Chased Joe Stalin into
the war on our side, but I think
I can straighten him out and
many others who seem to take
toward Russia the same rela
tion that we have to Britain, and
who have inquired: “How can
we say we are going to help
Stalin and, at the same time, go
on with our prosecution of Stal
in's agents in the United States?"
I say that’s easy.
F r-t of all. we all know we
are not going to take toward Rus
sia the same relation that we
have toward Britain, for, to Am
ericans, the Russians are just an
other breed of faceless people
like the Germans, lacking voli
tion in this war and all other
situations. We know, too, that
they entered the war for no prin
ciple, but only because they were
jumped on suddenly by a double
crossed no better nor any worse,
except that he is more efficient
than their own dictator. They
didn't come in to preserve any
of the freedoms which we have
heard so much about or to pre
serve the western civilization
and Christianity from Hitler and
the German race. .They suddenly
found themselves at war to save
their own lives, without, as far
as anyone knows, so much as a
word of parley or even the pre
tense of a grievance.
Have To Fight
They have to fight on our side
and inasmuch as they must fight
the common enemy it would be
foolish of us not to give them
a cheer which is practially all
we can give them .anyway, and
refrain from hampering them.
And victory for our side cer
tainly doesn’t mean that we auto
matically fall vicitni to Stalin
ism under Russian domination,
because, as we very well know,
the Russians have been absurd
ly dumb and clumsy in their ef-(
forts to spread communism in
other lands, and have lost the de
cis on wherever they made the
break, producing, instead, the re
action, Hitlerism, which is just
communism under native man
agement. We don’t have to fear
their conquering us after the war
Iv would have to fear enslave-•
men* by Hitler should he win,
because that man is not only as
vile as Stalin but a tremendous!
•fighter who hates our very tripes.
Not In Position To Say
As to whether we will whip up
something of our own to abolish;
and supercede our accustomed
3nd cherished American way in
tlie event of victory, I wouldn’t
if our side wins, but we certain-!
undertake to say, because it has1
been my idea for a long time
that the American people have
been running down to the saloon
with our precious heirlooms and
trading them for habit-forming
shots of grog to reconcile us to j
Japanese Said
To Be Spying
WASHINGTON. Ju’.v — The
Dies Committee is hard at work
and discloses plans for hearings
in the near future ,at Philadel
phia and Washington on possible
.Japanese espionage.
The Coi.rmittee states that
1 000 Japanese fishing boats are
under the direction of the Nip
ponese navy now stationed in
and around various Pacific Coast
ports.
Their assignment, said a Dies
Committee member, is to spy on
the Pacific fleet in case of even
tual hostilities between the Unit
ed States and Japan.
Department of Agriculture of
Agriculture officials report no
shortage of spinach is expected
this year. They evidently are
counting on Congress remaining
in more or less constant session.
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our troubles. We have actually
come to the point now of say
g that a man is ignoble and un
American who plaintively insists
that lie is entitled to the money
he earns and all he can earn le
gctimately.
So. if we win, with the invol
untary a-s stance of the Russians
and nevertheless lose those free
dams and our human individual
ity, that will be just the fault of
ourselves and fate. But if Hitler
wins we will do as Hitler says,
because he will have a world on
which to draw for soldiers and
the tools and ships of war, all
directed by this amazingly and
frightfully efficient and ruthless
genius.
As To Prosecutions
And now what about this busi
ness of prosecuting Stalin's
agents while we are, in manner
of speaking, his ally in the war
on the common enemy?
Well, if Britain had agents
among us trying to set up a king
dem we would prosecute those
agents too. But the British have
had the intelligence to realize
that we don’t want a king and
would resent any attempt to es
tablish a monarchy here & have
let us alone ever since we finally
us alone ever since we finally
convinced them that we meant
business.
Stalin, on the other hand, with
the seditious help of a few native
Americans and import jobs, has
been trying to establish commun
ism here, and that has made it
necessary for us to get rather
tough in a refined way.
Now, however, he has called
them off and after the war, if we
win, there will be no Stalin to
direct them, because his own
mob will get him and somebody:
else will then resume the priv
ilege of directing Russian affairs.
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