| Show NA NATIONAL AFFAIRS Re fey hy CARTER FIELD FIELDA A ii Circular T Letter Stirs oj 0 tile the Pre ess Reason for jor Jap Attach on this Russian Siberia nfl full Fl Fen hit l. 8 W WASHINGTON Wn Washington of Or fici I and unon I h tins hot ho tid bothered for over n ii cir cutin letter sent nt out by bv an all ogency J here which has bout been r n a nort sort ort of ol low down on ton tonto to bankers business bUline I men and others throughout the thc country cO foi mr a n number num nuni- her ber of or 5 years cars This writer fir first then hoard heard rel a about bout the in New York Vork where It was wn s learned that a n number of clients for tor this service were so Indignant that such an nn attack should be made on the government that they had notified the agency to discontinue Its service to them at the expiration of 01 the Ule present sent subscriptions This was a n big surprise lo to the writer because like hue most active newspaper men and observers Ken Ken- orally in Washington he had admired ad ud- mired this service sr for a n good Rood many years So on returning to tn Washington one of the first mandatory jobs was to hunt html up the letter which had caused so 0 much furor and rend lend It There followed ed conversations with officials and unofficial observers newspaper and magazine men familiar with various parts of the picture The net result is that the writer believes s the criticism of the letter eUer was not well taken that the theetter letter etter OUGHT to have ha said what it did and ond that the facts were not nol even exaggerated Matter of 01 Public Record The point of ot tills this discussion revolves re s-c- valves voves around freedom of 01 the press It Is true that this tbs circular letter Jetter does docs not pose as ns being part of ot the Press It is not a n matter of public pub lie lic record In general it pointed to certain grave c weak spots In Ia the gov governments government's gov- gov 0 war organization It criticized President Roosevelt mostly for his good humor and patience with among his Isis subordinates anti and with wills plain downright Inefficiency when he lie liked personally the men a and women women Involved It went vent on to insist that not only a shakeup was necessary but that certain individuals some of ot them of ot cabinet rank should be thrown out It did NOT advocate Ie the Ule supplanting supplant ing of Nelson Neson saying that he ho was probably the best man for the job likely to be found but it warned that if something were not done Nelson Nel Net son might be thrown out eventually e and that thereupon tho the army would take over Such things SHOULD be printed if Jf the writers believe them regardless regardless regard regard- less Jess of whether they UlCY are ore right or wrong Nothing in the Uie I letter tr could possibly possibly pos pos- sibly be news to the enemy Selfishness Prompt Prompts t Japs' Japs Action in China Zone If It that all out alt out attack b by the Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese on Siberia about which we have been hearing so much is ren really ordered ordered ordered or or- dered it wl will ill be the first time in tills this war that the Japanese army moved in force This sounds strange when we remember Malaya Singapore Burma Durma the Dutch East Cast Indies and China but comparatively I it is true The best estimates in ill official hands hand lies here as to the disposition of the Japanese army do not total quite a n million men in all alt the war theaters theaters thea thea- named In fact even en including China the strength of the Ihl Japanese army in those regions probably is not more than men It is well ell eil known here that the Japanese army numbered at least men Some experts put it higher Subtracting acting the full million which is lie Uie highest estimate of Japanese troops so far tar employed d this le leaves available n for lor something else ellie Nearly everyone in and out of ci authority end and regardless of which of the United Nations he s serves r believes believes be he- that the big effort elfort wilt will be in Siberia J Japan has long coveted ted the northern ha half cf of island is I land owned b by RU Russia MB and also allio the till m maritime of Siberia Some think she would like to ie extend lies hoi I sway from to I 1000 miles inland n with I ills the t already made that t would gl guther gut give her all nil of cat tern Asia la from the North orth pole down to the Indian ocean and right up to the boundary of India Also Mso she has the lisa rich islands which she bIle he would Hr very viry much like 1111 to lo hold forever But she knows thit she sho cannot annot hold them unless Get many Get many wins the I war I If 11 Germany should crack whether in the near future or after more marc years of ot fighting the Japanese war lords know perfectly well it would just be a matter of time until the United Nations forced her to dis disgorge or e everything she basso hasso has bas hasso so easily er ln tn this Ws war war war- and perhaps even some that the she had bad before for instance Korea tr |
