Organized Civilian. and Christian Relief for Soldiers and the Refugees guerre ren she HSI eGOBTs tard Se andestar between Che on epee T began. this odyssey with a background of a three week's visit to Japan where I found the nation was mobilized to win the war, With the notable exception of a few groups per which prudence enjoins me from mentioning, the people of Japan be-Weve in the righteousness of their cause, Although we know that the war has-been long planned and enaincered by their' militarists—to establish 0 mighty Continental em= ite, the militarists were shrewd enotigh to realize that only by employing fictitious reasons to justify the war could they succeed in mo-Dilizing the nation in its support.
Only by convincing her people that China began the war and is therefore the aggressor, and that the life of Japan is endangered by the communism of China, have they been able to mobilize the nation in support of the war, The propaganda of the press does not only deal recklessly with facts, but consistently distorts facts and go interprets them as to mould the public opinion to conform fo and support the military objectives. If there are any pacifists. in Japan, they have not the ghost of a chance to give ullerance to their 'Against this background Journey took me through the heart of China which Is under. no Fascist for quasi-Fascist domination, where they are' intimately face-to-face with the realities of the war and its causes and where it is still possible for individuals to give utterance to their convictions without fear of any dire consequences, 1 was in Nanking and Chingliang immediately after, the disastrous defeat of: the Chinese armies at Soochow. and found a: remarkable unanimity among them that the resistance aguinst the aggressor must be continued at all costs,
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