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Deliberate Planning ! ^-Japan, Like Germany, Out To Con- ,; th.i00quer The World jLet nobody think that Japan's at- ■ tack upon Britain and the United t ^• States was any sudden inspiration.A Washintgon writer for the Over-i seas News Agency recalls that as far : hack as 1927 one General Tanaka,1 re: j then premier of Japan, presented to m: 1 the Emperor a document which be- ; ^ came known as the Tanaka Memoir. su 1 Somehow the text leaked out, and *ei •; although Tokyo claimed hotly that it i was a fake it seems to have been1 i: genuine. In order,’* wrote Tanaka, \| to conquer the entire world the, Bi j conquest of China is a prerequisite, j i; . . .If we want to control China we :1 must first defeat the United States li\ i: of America as we have smashed Rus- U;■ | sia. . . . We have to fight America ; te■ ■ now or later.’* j ed Five years later another Japanese bisabre-rattler, a general named Araki,. hr said this: Our country intends to ch ‘ ■ enforce her national ideal through teIi • the seven seas of the globe. We must ta i , do it by war if necessary. We are wlt;the descendants of God and should ( w -rale the world. I atiThese are not isolated specimens ec of Japanese eloquence—many other h€ instances, and more recently, could de ■ j be cited. 1 a, We should be making a mistake. ‘ w. | therefore, if we assumed that Japan he t j is the misguided victim of German h£ c j intrigue. Japan is in the war because j r' i she wants to be in it. It is her de-;i liberate and cold-blooded choice.— ^ nlt; t. Ottawa Journal. , N
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Baldur Gazette
Baldur, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jan 08, 1942
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