Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-05 | Page 6 | Now the Sea Dog Barks

Now HOW the Sea Dog Barks worlds world's air is getting intolerably stuffy THE with the steamy proclamations of omnipotence omnipotence omnipotence tence and omniscience by its mountebanks Its duces and war lords in their delusions of grandeur stand badly in need of the giftie to see themselves themselves them them- selves through the eyes of the rest of the world Th There's Theres res re's the blustery Benito the hungry heil-hungry Hitler the saber slapping Stalin and Nippon's God on a White Horse There are the lesser dictators dictators dictators dic dic- dic- dic toadstools springing up overnight like There are the vainglorious and lunged leather-lunged l leaders aders of the shirt isms There are discarded discredited and debilitated emperors kings and princes who left home on the run to hide out in cowardly security where they could 1 go about in the tattered trappings and shadowy splendor of their gone and forgotten glory In their arteries the watery royal blood r strives to pulse again with such ill success that they cannot blush for their grotesqueries What a merry company these egocentrics compose But what an addition to this bughouse brigade came upon the scene Tuesday Admiral Nobu- Nobu masa Suetsugu stuck his neck out in an interview interview interview inter inter- view printed in Kaizo and reprinted in all Paris newspapers Four years ago he broke into print with an assertion that even then Japan was preparing for war with the United States It must annoy him no end to see how fruitless have been Japanese efforts to embroil us in the present present present pres pres- ent gallant defense his country is carrying out against Chinas China's babies and helpless and helpless communities of hungry noncombatants Now he blusters that Japan regards the present time as propitious for driving all whites out of Asia Once and for all he said Then he chattered much other nonsense What is the world going to do to quiet these w dreaming Caesars Caesars- Napoleons and Emperor Joneses J How about saying to the whole rowdy lot 3 uN erts to you gen gentlemen en N erts to you all all' rJ