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of March 3, 1879.
MONDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1944
THE JAPANESE
ARMED MIGHT
Despite the long drain of
the war and the repeated
defeats in the southern Pa
cific areas, Japan’s armies
have yet to be mustered to
its full strength.
Conservative estimates
now are that she ha s a
force of slightly less than1
5,000,000 men in service,
approximately 60 per cent
of them north of the Phil
ippines.
She has at least 2,000,000'
more men of draft age anc11
fit for service, but have not
yet been called to service.
Japan has a normal re
placement in the services
about 250,000 per year, and
the destruction of her forc
es has not yet reached this
annual rate.
Therefore it seems thal
great efforts must be exert
ed by the allies before Ja
pan can be brought to hex
knees.
The chief function of the
Japanese navy has been
that of carrying troops and
troop supplies, and as a
supply escort. Since the be
| ginning of the Japanese na
tion they have been land
' soldiers and therefore think
f war in terms of land bat
es, therefore the navy has
ad a job of protecting sea
j lanes to the land fronts, and
also the areas surrounding
the homeland.
It is expected by the mil
itary command to strike in
the dark, surely and quick
ly, to inflict as much dam
age as possible and then
run—relying upon its sup
erior speed to retire from
danger.
From all conservative es
timates we can expect that
the J apanese navy will give
a good account of itself
when we are near enough
with our land forces to be a
easonable threat to the
apanese homeland.
Nevertheless, there is yet
formidable naval strength
to the Japanese navy, and
we must not for a moment
let the victories in the war
overshadow the grim bat
tles which are sure to be
necessary, before the ene
my is completely overcome.
Until that job is done we
must pledge ourselves to
continue to pour the mater
ials of war to the fronts.
RECONVERSION
SLOWED UP
George Romney, director
of the Automotive Council
:>r War Production, sav
gely attacked the Govern
lent’s dilatoriness on re
conversion preparations in
the speech he made before
the National Industrial
Conference Board.
The evident purpose was
to build a fire under the
government agencies con
erned that possibly might
stimulate them to energetic
action.
Both purpose and attack
are justified by the facts of
the situation and by the ex
treme importance to the
country that reconversion
be facilitated in every prac
tical way. The failure to get
it started quickly, after war
production is cut back, not
only will mean needless
unemployment but may af
fect the country’s economic
future frr years to come.”
* *
• •
Even now, if the war in
Europe ends before Decem
ber, Romney estimated, it
is too late to retrive the ad
ditional lag in reconversion
time already occasioned by
Washington’s failure to
reach timely decisions.
Every further day’s delay
in starting these prepara
tions adds more to the in
evitable period of heavy
transitional unemploy
ment,, which at best, ac
cording to some auto in
dustry sources, must ex
tend for six months.
Romney accused the
Washington officials of
creating a false public im
pression that reconversion
preparations in fact are
well advanced.
Whether or not this im
»
pression was deliberately
created, the bill of particu
lars supplied by the speak
er left no doubt of its fal
sity. Some steps sought by
the auto industry have been |
taken but the failure to
take others still leaves it
impossible for manufactur- j
ers to complete their plans
for resumption of civilian
production.
* * *
The auto industry is not
asking to be excused fromj
any war production the!
Government requires of it.
All it asks is the Govern
ment’s intelligent coopera
tion in enabling those pre
paratory reconversion
steps that can be taken
without interfering with'
war production in any way.
Romney Said Govern
ment officials simply ap
pear not to understand,
even now, the necessity of
these preparatory steps for
shortening the period of
changeover and unemploy
ment. We hope his frank
and bitter speech will have
contributed something to
their understanding. —
(Detroit News).
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