Sept. 27.
The requirements of military intelligence—or indeed of any form of government intelligence—being What they are, it is proper to differentiate between official appreciations of a situation intended for departmental consumption and the ordinary pronouncements of diplomacy. Even when the day comes for the world to be organized on the basis of peace-construction rather than war-prevention, it is doubtful whether international in~ telligence services will" dispense with a technique which sharpens national perception and keeps Statesmen in touch with" realities. Yet such views are best preserved for esoteric study. Broadcast to an undiscriminating world, they may Become definitely misleading, frequently contradictory and always dangerous to good relationships. Major-General Hayao Tada is not troubled with these qualms. His hardworking officers have produced 'a memorandum on Japan's policy in China. They have put it in the form of a pamphlet which is duly published, Moreover General Tada fakes pains to see that no bushel hides the light of this literary off spring. Twenty Japanese journs ists are summoned to the headquarters gf the Japanese Army in North China at Tientsin and they fare duly called upon to appreciate the seven-chapter exposition of Japanese freedom from territorial ambitions in China, 'They are' plainly told that views which ascribe such ambitions to Japan suffer under the distressing dis~ ability of conflicting with the policy of "the Japanese military authorities in North China." The information was received with suitable reverence. General Tada, in essaying the role of publisher's advertiser, successfully induced. some of his visitors to telegraph summaries of the new publication.
Its own merits will, howeve win for it attention: " Curious enough, its publication follows! closely on the issue of a statement] credited on September 24, by. Rengo, at Tokyo, to a spokesman for the Ministry of War" who was reported to be depressed about General Chiang Kai-shek's 1uke-warmness in furthering Sino Japanese ce-operation. There is some difference on points of detail between Tokyo and Tientsin's complaints against the Generalissimo. "Whereas Tokyo definitely accuses him of faltering in his campaign against the Reds whom, after shepherding half across China, he is driving out of Szechuen, Tientsin discerns in him predilections for anti-Japanese activities and boldly plumps for his overthrow. _Associated with General Chiang Kal~ shek in this malignant attitude are Ministries of the Government. 'The immediate remedy, General Tada's pamphlet seems to gest, is the creation of a in the North for there'
unsullied doctrines of Sino-Japanese rapprochement can Be. given freedom of scope, without fear of contamination with the hesitancies of Nanking. Tokyo, for' its part, believes that sume of the Government and General Chiang Kai-shek have developed an affec~
Generallssimo's gingerly handling of the Szechuen Reds is therefore understandable. To make the picture more convincing, the obliging Tokyo Press learns from reli~ able quarters" that the establishment of a Soviet Republic in Sinkiang is imminent. Moscow has promptly, lenied the soft impeachment, In thinking aloud, the Tieatsin military commentators brightly @eclare their solicitude for China's Independence and China's dignity. The mental agility thus revealed is surely wasted on a General Staff. It should be basking in the glamour of, a wider repute. In brief it advocates the separation of North) China, 1} advises the overthrow of
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