POLICYREVISION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 5

POLICYREVISION

URGED BY U.S. CORRESPONDENT

(Recd. 9 p.m.) New York, Dec. 31. “Is American official authority leaning over-heavily on the idea that once Hitler is licked the Japanese will fall easy victims?” asks David Lawrence in the New York Sun.

Lawrence warns that information from informed sources fortifies the opinion that unless the Japanese are aggressively handled now they may get such a big start that a long war would be inevitable. The Japanese had an inferiority complex but, following their relatively easy con-, quests, now think a compromise peace or a stalemate is at least obtainable. The Japanese do not know that the Americans are determined never to compromise or talk peace until Japanese militarism is squelched. Asking - the Government does not provide the weapons and materials needed to prevent Japan from entrenching herself behind conquered areas, Lawrence replies: “Our British friends, maybe, do not see eye to eye with us on the importance of the Pacific. This would be surprising in view of the fact that the United States Navy has made such heavy sacrifices in order to protect Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Decisions of great importance must be made, and if rumours that Mr. Churchill is about to visit Washington are not true they ought to be, for the paramount problem of global strategy and the allocation of Leaselend supplies needs early solution.”