Show ECONOMIC highlights and industrial estrial news review f ta everyone must realize by now that the japanese american war is not arf an isolated conflict in the pacific without bearing on ion the wars that are going on elsewhere in ahr world A month ago when the jai jap nese attacked bahu oahu without warnings warning they tey were simply car carrein out their part of a tremendous plan for world domination that was framed in be berlin irlin the amazing efficiency with shih the jar blitzer blitz blitzkrieg kr eg was delivered suggests v german high command influence japins japans war leaders have nev nevi been famous for surprise and ty ly the germans on the other hand have proven n themselves dives masters of strategy and it js very probable that german staff officers had a lot to do with planning the attack As the president has said thi war is jiri prim airily marily a war against N na 4 cism and everything else is incidental to that the reasons for germ any doing everything in her power to provoke an american japanese war are clear the involvement of the united states in a shooting war means that for the time being dt it asas viat that our lendl lese se laid to the allies will be reduced and naval strength will have to be concen rated grated in the pacific second if japan can succeed in her drive to isolate this country from the far east the axis powers will have con control arol of immense quantities uan of vital war materials of which oil is the most important rhe fhe dutch rulers of rich batavia ire putting up a great fight but hey simply the manpower the ships or the equipment to fight on alone their forces act as adjuncts of british american fores it the latter powers are driven ut of the far east the dutch bould soon be through it has long been said that this auntry should be able to defeat japan ap an in ii a very brief period of biml hat might be true if we could con nitrate air all American fighting fores force I 1 nd md production cap capacity city in the pro of a pacific war but wo we ire re at war on another front and must therefore maintain an atlan ic ic fleet of considerable size to help he british in combating the U boat kenlice nen jenace lice and the president has said hot hat aid to our allies will continue ven though it may be temporarily n a reduced scale it is known that tapan has for years built up re rc carves of war materials some are if f tho the opinion that she has enough in hand to last for a full year of ill out fighting tho japanese are fanatical fight rs and their samurai S tradition oll bolds that a man who dies in battle will go to an asiatic valhalla in which all is milk and honey therefore it is only the part of wisdom for this county to expect a long war a 3 war in which there will be serous reverses no less than great victories the loss of one american and two british battleships along with a number of lesser is serious but is by no means fatal our fleet alone is much larger than the japanese and it is said to have greater fire power speed and ar or judged in a ship for ship bas basis is the combined american and british britis t fleets outnumber the japanese fleet by more than two for one but both of the former must keep malor naval units elsewhere while japan has her entire force in th tha pacific and this of course materially cuts down our naval supremacy acy in the long run most authorities think this will come down to a war of resources resource sa a war of oil pro debion steel capacity etc here ou our r edge over economically poor japan is tremendous but even if japan should hould collapse hitler with all the resources of europe will reff remain iain and the destruction of hitlerism Is the announced goal of all the allies none think that can be done easily |