PEACE OVERTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 7

PEACE OVERTURES

WARNING AGAINST JAPAN

RUGBY, February 17,

A timely warning is given that the peace offers of General Tojo, the Japanese Premier, are suspiciously similar to all the earlier manifestations of this type of Axis technique, particularly on the part of Hitler. The "Daily Telegraph" says: "It is worthy of note that at this moment General Tojo has been so good as to send from the Japanese Parliament protestations of benignity which will increase the general abhorrence of [Japanese militarism. "The wolf has on sheep's clothing, and it bleats. It will give Burma to the Burmese. It will admit India to the sphere of co-prosperity. "Even the people of Australia and New Zealand may be happy if they lie I down before the Japanese (as happy as I the Chinese, whom the Japanese air- : men have loved like brothers). I "This reads too crudely to be true, but the summary is exact. The crudity is in Tojo's mind. What sort of people [would they be who, having seen the Japanese 'make hell while the sun shines,' believed in a Japanese profession of friendship?

"Our enemies, European and Asiatic both, have done us the favour, of demonstrating that there can be no safety, for us till their power for evil is extirpated." «