AMERICA AND JAPAN.
“SHOW-DOWN” IMMINENT. EDITORIAL OPINION. NEW YORK, Dec. 15. The editorials in some of the leading New' York morning newspapers most significantly express the national opinion.' The New York Daily News says:— “If we are meditating war against Japan we ought also to count the cost beforehand. Last time we counted the cost afterward and are still counting it. What we would be fighting for would be the right of American warships and marines to be absolutely safe as neutrals on a hattlefied. The Yangtse is a battlefield. We have a treaty right to safety on this battlefield, but the fact is that more men and ships are likely to be hit if they remain.
“Most of us sympathise with China, but it is not our duty to come to the rescue of a country with six times the population and ten times the resources of Japan. If the Chinese do not love China enough to keep it free we should not either.
“We think a ‘show-down’ between America and Japan is coming eventually, but it should occur in mid-Paci-fic and not in China nor on the Sea of Japan. Let us be smart enough this time to pick our own battlefield and know what the fight is about.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 9
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