The Archive · 1938

Penetration Prophesied If U.S. Leaves

Berkeley, July 17.

The Philippine Islands face economic disaster and a Japanese invasion as soon as the United States withdraws from the islands, Professor Lennox A. Mills, of the University of Minnesota, told University of California students today.

Lecturing on the Far East, Prof. Mills explained that despite an invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese "there will be no war because Japan will not risk annihilation by American forces for such a small stake." The invasion will be a peaceful penetration."

He charged that the Philippines was practically controlled by a dictatorship because Sr. Manuel Quezon, President of the Commonwealth," is a maker dnd breaker of Weekly Reichsbank legislators."—United Press.

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