Courteous Japs Kow-Tow To Victorious Americans By BAUKHAGE Sew* Analyst OtiA Commentator. wn Iflf kl 111 I Klavt /.nrr.A? "Van.e Prnm Cmo^_ nnt service, toio r^jr siicct, n.w., Washington, D. C. Recently, I had two experiences which melded. I ran into my colleague, Kenneth Romney Jr., son of Kenneth Rom UCJ OX.( BCi b it-irma of the house of repre sentatives. Young .Romney recently has taken up his duties in radio again after a be lated discharge from the military service, the lat ter part of which was spent with the "cloak and dagger" boys, the Office of Strategic serv Baukhage Casually, he told me how he land - ed in Shanghai. He had been serv ing in China. Shortly after V-J Day he was ordered, along with some hundred other American officers and soldiers, to Shanghai. It was known there were no Chinese troops in the city. Shanghai had been in Japanese hands since the beginning of the war. The civilian population had become none too co-operative. Hence, the Americans (even the "cloak and dagger" boys) arrived in full battle dress. Their plane landed, and little brown men came forward toward them. The Americans had their rifles at "ready." Some fired. But the Japs, undeterred, came for ward, bowing deeply, smiling. It was a Japanese ground force, ready and anxious to service the Amer ican planes. Later came Jap officers with a whole fleet of limousines. The Americans were guests, not' con querors. The conquered enemy were hosts?not just the conquered. They offered to find accommoda tions and the trimmings. A little confusing, the Americans thought, but that was, after all, the Orient China, another world. . . . Now the scene shifts to Washing ton again. I witness the meeting of a husband and wife. Plenty of such meetings these days, still. It was touching. The man had dropped out of the Far Eastern skies. It seemed only yesterday that I had heard he was in a city in the Neth erlands Indies where the American corporation be represented had one of its great plants. He was the first American to visit it since the terri tory had been won back from the enemy. But had it been won back? When I heard his story, I won dered. It seems that when be reached the gates at the American owned plant, he found a Japanese on guard. Ha identified himself. In a few moments, a smiling and bow ing Japanese officer, still wearing .most of his uniform and speaking understandable English, appeared. They began a tour at the prop erty, the Jap most deferential but of fering no word of explanation or apology tor the fact that he, a late enemy, was in charge and not in jail. In fact, the Jap was very lo quacious on the subject of the ex cellent work that he and his helpers had done to put the plant back into repair and operation. He showed my friend the various places where the buildings and ma chinery had been damaged?evi dence, he pointed out, smiling, of the excellent marksmanship of the American air force. He dem onstrated with particular pride how excellently the repair work had been done, obviously expecting (and roraitrirtol ivnll^AanruaJ rveaiea I the technical skill the Japanese re pairmen had shewn. Very nice, of course. But American industry still reaps no benefit from that plant, and al though the Japanese gain no profit ?therefrom, this American property is still, literally, in the hands of the enemy. Load* of Mail Commentator't Lot For one whole week. I saved all the things that came to me by mail which I hadn't asked for?except personal letters. I have just counted them, and there are 233 separate pieces in all. The total number of pages I am expected to read adds up to nearly a thousand. The one on top is "the back of the book" from Omni book. A col lection of amusing stories. But Om nibook itself is better still and 1 be lieve I have every issue, begin ning with Vol. 1, No. 1. BARBS . . Four of the goats used in the atom bomb test seem to have par tially recovered. There will be a lot of human goats, if the bomb gets into general use. see Pat Donald Callahan won a prise offered by the army for an essay on "Why I Joined the Army." Part at the prize was a date with two I' showgirls, la that why. Donald? 4'IAI l-Uliica 11C??3 i 1UIII krnvw en," a mimeographed collection of featur-y paragraphs from the Amer ican-Swedish News Exchange. I re call when the Swedish minister here consulted me about the founding of such a publicity bureau, back be fore we got into World War I. The next is one of the UAW-CIO regular releases, and then the CIO News, a 16-page weekly, printed, I suppose, for their membership. Then one of the valuable National Opinion Research surveys put out by the University of Denver. This one is a poll of American opinion on the Germans and Japs and how we think they got that way. More Business Weeks, and "Pro gram Information" from my own American Broadcasting company. A printed letter from the Payroll Guarantee association with an en closure on "civilized cats, mice and cheese." The American Feed Man ufacturers' association handout say ing the feed shortage is over. General Motors sends me the ninth in a series of production re- i ports. (What could have happened to the other eight?) The release from the National Planning association announces that Leon Henderson and the official ; of a big corporation have been add ed to their board of trustees?and if you want to know about the dis tribution of fats and oils by the de partment of agriculture, you can have my copy of the second interim report from the Committee on Small Business pursuant to H. Res. 64. Or Maybe You'd Prefer Rail Loadings Maybe you'd rather have freight loadings of the week from the As sociation of American Railways, or perhaps you want to bid on the pur chase of 15 or fewer Landing Ship Tank (LST) type vessels? Or per haps you'd prefer some all-wool American flags, or a BK steel barge for dry or liquid cargo? No? Well, no harm in making the offer. Next exhibit is "News From France" from the French Informa tion service. I'll admit I asked for that, along with the attractive mag azine, "La Republique Francaise." Here's the state department's weekly bulletin which is Part Three of that interesting series on the present status of German youth. I was planning to write an article on that subject myself, but they tell me the magazines are overbought on Germany. Won't .buy another thing. Just two pages of mimeographed material from the "Friends of Finn ish Democracy." Cruel irony here. Remember when it was "brave lit tle Finland"? Remember when Finnish Minister Procope couldn't go anywhere without being applaud ed? Finland paid?fcer war debts! She even managed not to duck aft er the war! Well, Finland's friends are protesting now over the repara tions demanded by Russia . . . heav inr in nrnnnrfinn fn nnniilatinn ? ? Ml |ll W|1V1 MMU KJ |W(hi ous landings as "inratioa troops" near the Virginia capes. A few veteran marines In each landing craft led the middies and cadets ?share in the war gamas. Photo shears, left to right. Secretary of Navy James Farrestal. 11 ml Aubrey Fitch, and two West P*M cadets "digging In" the beach. DIGS GKAVES . . . Denna Bar thel, 19-year-old North Liberty, Ind., miss, is believed to be the only girl grave digger in the C. S. Her eagerness to obtain a musical education led ber to hire out as a grave digger at Sauktown, Ind. She was proclaimed "Girl of the Tear" by Guitar guild. DERBY WINNER . . . Gilbert DtfU. 14, San Diego, who won the IMS All-American Soap Box derby at Akroo, Ohio. More tfaan 45,449 spectators watched the tint. Racers from all sections at fee is will j participated RUSSIA'S BIG MISTAKE WASHINGTON. ? If the Soviet government had deliberately set out to make mistakes it couldn't have made more than it has piled up in the past year. In the one year that has passed since V-J Day, Russia has won the ill will of her neigh boring countries in Europe, has lost virtually all her friends in the United States and has turned most of the world against her. In considering our present strained relations with Russia, this is all-important. It indicates that time is running on our side, that Russia's own policies are playing Into our hands, and that war can be avoided. One year ago Soviet Russia was considered the great savior of the world. In Europe, the Russians were given credit, far more than the United States, for liberating the occupied countries, were even hailed by some as the pioneers of a new world order. In the U. S., most Americans had a genuine ad miration for the heroism of the Russian people and looked for ward to a period of friendly co operation. Today that good will has vanished. In all of Russia's satellites, with the possible exception of Finland ' ' * 1 - c ana i^zecnosiuvaiua, uie uwjci extremely unpopular, even hated. Romanja and Bulgaria would bolt Russia in a minute were it not for the Red army. Hungary and Aus tria, which Russia hoped to win over, voted overwhelmingly against the Soviet. In France the strong Communist upsurge now has hit the downgrade. Even in Yugoslavia, where Tito is supposed to be su preme, the Russians are not popu lar. Most interesting fact is that the countries nearest the Russians usually dislike them most. Thus in more distant France, there is more pro-Soviet sentiment than in the ad jacent Balkans. Finally, in the American-British zones of Germany, Germans are fearful lest the western allies even tually evacute and Russia walks in. ? ? ? C. 8. STOCK GOES CP Thus the world has turned against an aggressor nation. Thus also, the world has turned toward a nation which has no selfish axes to grind and which is attempting to co-oper ate with the rest of the world. This is what Secretary of State Byrnes has sincerely tried to do at Paris; and as far as this observer could ascertain, his patient, fair minded policy is paying dividends. Part of the world, once ready to sing Russia's praises, has veered toward the United States. Therefore, the No. 1 point of American policy should be to work things out within the family of nations; to put Palestine and j oiner controversial proDiems unaer the United Nations; not to let the British drag us into separate al liances. This is our greatest dan ger. If we become the tail on the British kite, we can be euchred into war with Russia ? exactly where the British foreign office imperial ists want us. But as long as the smaller independent nations of the world are convinced of our unsel fish motives, as long as we re main aloof from both sides, our strength as a world leader is secure. ? ? ? TENSION INCREASES However, this alone may not head off war with Russia. As this is .written, censored diplomatic dis patches from the Far East report three days of rifle skirmishing be tween American and Russian troops along the Korean border. This is the first time U. S.-USSR troops have deliberately fired at each other. Another censored dispatch from London reports the British general staff meeting daily to plan strategy for defending the British lifeline in the Near East. in omer words, certain belliger ent elements in Russia are quite willing to risk war now; and cer tain elements in England believe a showdown is better now than later. In a charged atmosphere like this, one spark can cause tragedy. However, this observer's experi ence in watching foreign affairs con vinces him that seldom does any nation provoke an incident if it knows that incident means war; thus the best way to prevent war is to Jet a prospective belligerent know he will get it in the neck if he sticks his neck out. In other words, if Russia knows categorically and definitely that she wil] be at war with us if she be comes an aggressor against the United Nations, then the chances are 100 to 1 Russia will risk no war. ? ? ? COULD HAVE STOPPED HITLER To illustrate: If Adolf Hitler had known he would have been at war with France and England when he sent his troops into the Ruhr and Rhineland be never would have given them marching orders. As it was, fearing war, he gave them two sets of orders, one to advance and the second to retreat if the French resisted. Likewise, Hitler never would have sent his troops into Aus tria if be hadn't known the Allies were unprepared. He was right as later events proved. 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