Wsm-Will R.Manier Jr

While the war in Europe retains the headlines, events that have been taking place in Asia and in Western Africa may be in the long range of far greater concern to the United States and may require immediate decisions on our part of far-reaching importance.

As the war has been taking place in Europe, Japan has considered it a golden opportunity to win its undeclared war in China. is a great industrial nation and is needed only customers for its factories, raw materials, and an outlet for its sepless population.

China's invasion was for the purpose of providing for Japan three million customers, and by setting up puppet states that Japan will acquire such customers. Even then she will need raw materials, but ready at hand are the raw materials of French in Do-Chana and especially of the Dutch East Indies, from which we get a major part of

our rubber and our tin and other raw materials too. And once having the raw materials, an outlet for Japan's sepless population is ready at hand in the Philippines, in Australia and New Zealand. As soon as the Dutch East Indies were invaded, Japan began to look toward, as soon as Holland was invaded, Japan began to look at the Dutch East Indies.

she has been bringing pressure all during the war on Britain and France to no longer supply the armies of Xian Kai-shek. Since the collapse of France, why then no supplies are going to Xian Kai-shek over the French Indo-China railroads. And recently Britain agreed to close the Burma road, a fine concrete highway over which supplies continued to go to the Chinese. That's another

bit of appeasement, and during the past week Britain announced the withdrawal of her troops from Shanghai, which were there under the protocol that was executed for the Boxer Revolution. This leaves Shanghai the international settlement there, insofar as military is concerned, and entirely in the hands of an international force composed of the United States, the Italians, and also an