“WE MUST WIN NOW”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 241, 13 October 1942, Page 5

“WE MUST WIN NOW”

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN New York, Oct. 10. Dr. T. V. Soong, Chinese Foreign Minister, urged in New York that the United Nations establish immediately an international organisation to function during, as well as after, the war. Speaking at a Chinese relief rally Dr. Soong said that mistakes of the League of Nations could be avoided if the new world organisation were founded in wartime while the United Nations realised that collective security was essential to their individual safety and progress. The former United States Ambassador to Japan, Mr. J. C. Grew, emphasised the difficulty of the Pacific war. r . “In a most real sense the United States stands to win or lose in that theatre.” he said. “Should we lose the United States could be faced with a master-minded Japan and an enslaved East Asia possessing within itself every raw material and all the sources of energy needed to maintain a most formidable and most autarchylike military power. . The Japanese Empire seeks dominion over the body, mind, and soul of. the world’s largest populations and every ounce of the riches of the east. “We cannot lose once and win again. We would find it almost impossible to fight an enslaved Asia in later years. We must win now.”