TOKIO'S SECRET WEAPON
Narcotics Against the West
(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. A Treasury Department report on the international drug traffic charges Japan with starting a secret war against Western civilisation in 1931 by using narcotics. The illicit opium traffic was an instrument of Japanese policy for a decade, with a view to corrupting tUe Western nations and also weakening and enslaving the invaded countries and the countries earmarked for invasion. TJie Japanese Government organised opium smuggling into the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and is now flooding the conquered parts of the Philippines.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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95TOKIO'S SECRET WEAPON Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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