NIGHT CLUB WARRIORS
Night Club Warriors PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S Christmas Eve assertion that "the United Nations have no intention to enslave the German people," comes as an. encouraging if somewhat belated and...
...It has been generally accepted that the Japanese were "carrying on negotiations with us" right down to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and that the latter was an unprovoked and treacherous blow out of a clear sky...
...Another round, and while we swill, Arrange to kill, kill, kill, kill, kill...
...The special Japanese envoy, Kurusu, has been pictured as coming especially to throw us off guard while the "stab in the back" was being prepared...
...That these warnings were issued we know from the Roberts Commission's report of Jan...
...The new Cabinet immediately dispatched the special envoy Kurusu to Washington to negotiate here...
...Japanese assets in the United States had already been "frozen," and an increasingly tight embargo was already being enforced against Japan...
...18, 1941, was formed— this volume reveals—on the specific basis of reaching a peaceful understanding with the United States...
...Irwin Edman The Road To War THE State Department's second volume of diplomatic documents, published Dec...
...As Dixwell Chase, managing editor of Worldover Press, reported in The Progressive a few weeks ago, the leaders of underground movements in Europe see clearly that a peace of revenge—a peace which imposes crushing burdens on the people of Germany—can lead only to disaster...
...The government of Gen...
...Its disclosures can well be the starting point for that full-dress Congressional investigation of American foreign policy as it functioned between World Wars I and II which is bound to come when hostilities end...
...that hostilities were "momentarily possible...
...23, 1942...
...4, contains material which raises interesting questions with regard to the method of our involvement in war...
...What does Freedom triumph for Except for men tp kill some more, Why else are other people slain But that we bluster might and main...
...Far more encouraging and intelligent than our own attitude has been the approach of the people who have suffered most from Axis tyranny and conquest—the peoples of occupied countries of Europe and of China...
...In fact—according to the New York Times correspondent Arthur Krock, under date of Dec...
...Let's make sure when Victory's won We'll be more savage than the Hun...
...Joseph C. Grew, our well-informed Ambassador to Japan, reported that in the conference which immediately preceded the formation of the Tojo Cabinet—a conference in which the Emperor participated with leading members of the Privy Council and of the armed forces—the Sovereign asked "if they were prepared to pursue a policy which would guarantee that there would be no war with the United States...
...26 would be an expansion of the war somewhere in the Pacific area at the first moment that appeared to be propitious and . . . issued a private warning to his associates to look for it at any time...
...Sun Fo, president of the legislative branch of the Chinese government, declared that "we Chinese have no fear" of a democratic Japanese people "once they are rid of their present rulers...
...On Nov, 27, 1941, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Army Chief of Staff, and the Chief of Military Intelligence sent most remarkable and significant messages to their chief officers at Hawaii and elsewhere, stating that negotiations with Japan "had ended...
...Hull's expectations were fulfilled...
...26, however, the American government presented the Japanese with wholly new demands, calling upon the Japanese to "withdraw all military, naval, air and police forces from China and from Indo-China," and "not support—militarily, politically—any government or regime in China other than the National Government of the Republic of China, with capital temporarily at Chungking...
...On Nov...
...7, the Japanese struck...
...And Congress, which had shown such strong resistance to repeal of the Neutrality Act in November, was brought by this "overt act" to virtually 100 per cent support of the war...
...In a recent address, Dr...
...Do we mean us...
...But us no buts The dirty job's for guys with guts...
...Waiter, some caviar, some sparkling wine, We're planning blood baths on the Rhine And we'll be here to toast in gin Nice peacetime slaughters in Berlin It's up to us, far from the front, To bay like wolf packs on a hunt, It's up to us who think and write To fume and writhe and rage and bite...
...Envoy Kurusu arrived in November, evidently with instructions to reach an agreement on a basis previously discussed and tentatively agreed to by representatives of the two governments...
...17, 1941—Secretary Hull "felt sure that the reply of Tokyo to the proposals of Nov...
...We'll keep our brave typewriters hot...
...Hideki Tojo, which took office Oct...
...Oh, clearly not...
...They evidently were, and the Emperor ordered them to act accordingly...
...Let others do the dying, drilling, It's we who'll plan the postwar killing...
...On Dec...
...All Germans must die...
...The State Department has shed revealing light on the situation...
...Here it is: TO SOME BLOODTHIRSTY WRITERS At the Stork Club very late, Let us drink and drum up hate...
...Secretary Hull did not expect these new demands would be accepted...
...The attitude of the European and Chinese fighters against fascism and militarism constitutes a welcome contrast to that of our own stay-at-home strategists who pour out hymns of hate against whole nations from the safety of their apartments or a cozy nightclub...
...encouraging if somewhat belated and faltering recognition of the fact that a peace of revenge—a peace which fails to differentiate between peoples and their gangster leader will be a peace written in the blood of the next generation...
...The spirit of this group, which knows war from nightly inspections of the newsreels, was caught by Irwin Edman in a fine bit of verse in a recent issue of The New Yorker Magazine...
...The State Department's recently published volume, however, presents a somewhat different picture...
...Such a new Japan must and will take her rightful place in the world community of law-abiding and peaceful nations...
...but that "this nation should not commit the first overt act...
...Equally impressive is the attitude of the Chinese, who have suffered six years of cruel invasion by the Japanese warlords...
...Soldiers have little time for loathing, That's for us chaps in tailored clothing...
Vol. 8 • January 1944 • No. 2
