NO SECONDARY FOE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 42, 20 February 1943, Page 5

NO SECONDARY FOE

MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK 0b JAP POWER London, Feb. 18. Madame Chiang Kai-shek to-day addressed a joint session of the United States Congress, She is the second woman to do so, the first being Queen Wilhelmina. Madame Chiang Kai-shek recalled how China resisted Japanese sadistic fury unaided and alone during the first 4 J years of total aggression. The victories won by the Unitec States Navy at Midway and in the Coral Sea, and the magnificent, fight by the Americans on Guadalcanar were steps toward the defeat of the Japanese, but the peril of the Japanese Juggernaut remained. She said that Japanese military might must be decimated before its threat to civilisation was removed. Radio listeners heard her tell Congress in ringing tones that the defeat of the Japanese was not. as some people thought, of secondary importance. This is the way she put it: “It is against the interests of the United Nations to allaw Japan to continue, not only as a vital potential threat, hut as a waiting sword of Damocles, ready to descent! at a moment's notice.” The longer Japan was left in undisputed possession of the resources in her occupied areas, the stronger she must become. Almost at the same time that Madame Chiang was speaking a Japanese army spokesman in Tokio wa: talking of Japan's -'lans for an all out drive to crush the Chungking Government. He referred to the new Japanese offensive in central Chins as a start toward Japan’s five-year-oic dream of putting all China under the puppet regime at Nanking.