Show Wednesday Morning- 'll u - “?TIje Salt £ak (TriBrntc- - December 11 1940 Poll Reveals See Conflict Japanese British in With USasInevitable Hostile Mood Racial in America Passage Hostility Of Laws and Diplomatic Moves Cited by Nipponese Tokyo Writer Says Appeasement Plan Finds Few' Backers (Editor’s note: Japan has made an alliance with Germany a Italy Her leaders admit it contemplates the possibility of war with the United States Why do the Japanese think they might be fighting us? What issues do they feel are drawing them Into such a os By Dr Geo rye Gallup flictr Hero follows the first of two stories summing up the Japanese state ef mind and the factors from which It has developed written Director Americaa lniUtute of Public Opinion by Reiman Morin three Tears chief of the Associated Press Tokyo bureau His second story appears Thursday On Friday and Satur‘ Copyright 1940 day wo shall present “The United States' Case Against Japan” PRINCETON N J Dec 10— A by Lloyd Lehrbss formerly a war correspondent In China and k harp stiffening of British public Europe now on the A P’s Washington staff) ‘ opinion against the idea of a nego- By Reiman Morin The United States alone nul- tiated peace with Hitler is revealed TOKYO Dec 10 CSV--Tlifted the notorious “twenty-on- e beIn a series of publie opinion studies lief is widely prevalent in Japan demands” on China and excised Chinese-Jap-aneby the British Institute of Public today that Japan and the United the value from the treaties of 1919 st the Ver- to war on road the are States Opinion Some Japanese believe it will sallies conference Whereas last March At the Instance of America a direct collision between these be -- of all British voters polled wero in two nations alone others see it as Great Britain broke her alliance with Japan and the two together favor of opening negotiations for a part of a vast British-Americimposed the “humiliating” the expanding against struggle who peace today the proportion Germany and naval ratio on Japan actively favor this has shrunk to powersnowJapan united In an American opposition forced formally Italy 7 per cent Japan out of Shantung province alliance The overwhelming majority say In either case there is little after Japan aa one of the allies had spent blood and money there that if someone in their presence question in many Japanese minds to expel the Germans war will come suggested a negotiated peace with that Then In 1924 the exclusion act man this is For the average Germany now they would either dreadful thought He has the The Japanese government concontradict him or report him to same feeling as the foreign min- siders it their moral duty to place record and to maintain their the authorities apparently on the ister Yosuke Matsuoka who says on solemn protest against the dishe "shudders at the prospect” a that such ground suggestion criminatory clause” To this day Conviction Strong amounts to treason the protest lives The unconscious The conviction-i- t strongr both effect of the immigration law on Can Yoke Opinions official and private circles that Japan’s attitude toward the Ont of tho most Interesting in the sources of friction are too United States is incalculable Refer to the “open door” prin- too deep to aspects of the democratic process many the in a nation at war la the mere fact make easy the avoidance of war ciple and the instant Japanese reaction is a reference to the exdu- causes? that a public survey can be taken What are the not act sion do speak always Japanese in which voters are freely perAnd so up to the Intense dispute when but to foreigners frankly mitted to say whether they want they do it is a surprising indict- beginning in 1931 when Japan with a bill of seized Manchuria and the latest ment to America end of war interestthe Equally l It contains not only exchanges of bitterness over the ing is the manner in which the particulars conferences and the 1924 war in China and the program British Institute entirely manned treaties exclusion act but riots in San of expansion to the South Seas and directed by a British staff put Francisco bombings in Arizona Treatment In U 3 and so on up to the president’s the question in the survey They go further and assert that "It someone in your presence "quarantine speech” in Chicago the Japanese - as- - an “individual j think —All this -suggested that tt' would be a good comes under the heading of sheer often has been a target of perpIdea to have a negotiated peace antipathy It is history But it sonal animosity and violence in with Germany now what would is significant in Japan today to America They remind one that discover that the Japanese are re- on the Pacific coast there have you do?" The interviewing was concluded examining the history of their re- been actual riots against the Jap35 years ago) that just before the debate in commons lations with the United States anese (somebusiness firms were Thursday in which a 'peace move and are not so prone as they once Japanese In San Francisco and boycotted be was voted down 341 to 4 were to let that California once refused to The survey results were: Helps to Explain permit Jhpanese children to at- be a would It that Agree however tend ordinary public schools This background 1 good Idea to explain to They cite tne record a communia helps Japanese him 69 Contradict himself something much more im- cation from Theodore Roosevelt Report him to the authoripresident to a navy official: portant namely the present poli- then IS ties "I may have to use the army In cies of the United States 21 Say nothing Japanese insist that the United connection with boycotting or the of mob violence" The "say nothing” group in- States is unalterably opposed to suppression Th-- ' was in California Jap- cluded those who had no ready Japan's course of action They answer or were undecided believe that America ia prepared anese also remember that only a in What gives added Importance to to challenge nearly every Japa- few years ago night-ride- rs result is the contrast with the nese move determined to vitiate Arizona were throwing bombs at the I homes the of Japanese farmers previous survey taken last March and nullify Japanese ambitions Japanese ask “is there anything In a word that the United States Favored Peace to compare with this in our treatdenies Japan her right to live At that-timbefore the fall of They say the only means of ment of Americans in China France and the air blitzkrieg on avoiding this large inclusive much less in Japan?” These are some of the reasons England more than three times as point of friction would be for advanced by the Japanese as the many people favored a negotiated Japan to surrender her goals get out of China and the South Seas basis for their belief that war Is peace as favor it today “Would you approve or disap- and renounce the entire program inevitable (Thursday: The Nipponese ac- prove if the British government To many here even a suicidal war cuse the United States of med- were to discuss peace proposals seems preferable now with Germany?" They can understand why dling) American public opinion during — March 1940 the past three years of the China Fee conflict has been inflamed by the No experiences of American nationUndecided als in the war zones — the bombThis survey was taken shortly ings of property the slow stranLEADVILLE Colo Dec 10 UF) business after the arrival in Europe of gulation of Americansuffered Unless an unexpected private bid-- 1 at the and indignities United States Undersecretary of der appears a $294938 delinquent State Sumner Welles whose mis- the hands of Japanese soldiers tax sale certificate against the dividsion was widely interpreted in Accidents of War end-rich Climax Molybdenum England as a possible peace move But their contention has been company's properties will be asWednesday to Lake county that such events Bre Inevitable signed bid No was offered Tuesday in accidents of war and besides to the second day of Lake county's put it into American: delinquent tax sale If he follows “You hit me first” They argue that long before the previous custom County Treasurer China conflict the United States Frank E Kendrick will call for MAKE was aggressively and actively bids a third time Wednesday and THIS A REAL V to the hoatile to Japanese object i vesr a nd —CHILDREN'S—! the means for achieving them To- county The Climax company disputed! 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