Tot Editor of the "Nonm-Cuawa Darty News"
Sim—The_ mounting tension be-[tween the Soviets and the Germans which caused so much interest and excitement in the different capitals of the world today may be another ypleal Hitlerian feint.
a well-known fact that Hitler wil} not commit the Germans to a war on two fronts with powerful es. If such is the case, then what are the explanations as to his present manceuvres Surprise and the unexpected have always been the modus operandi of ler, and he may run true to form
Now that the United States have in. 3 come into the open to underwrite a British victory, the need for Hitler to counter-act such a move may cause him to double his efforts at bringing [the Japanese into the conflict on the [side of the Axis.
Aiter the trip of Mr. Matsuoka to Europe, rumours Ind it that Japan [war willing to Join the conflict if Hilller could guarantee the. capture Suez Canal:
have directed all their forts at closing in their right wing bused on. Cyrenaiea and their left wing based on the Balkans. This gigantic pincer movement, with th [Suez Canal as its objective, has to now failed, How then could the Japanese be made to participate in the war?
The defeat of white French troops in Indo-China by the Japanese has instilled self-confidence into the Japanese army, but the memory of the Chengkuofeng incident is still fresh; therefore, in order to en-the Japanese to move South, {the Germans concentrated troops.on the western borders of the Soviet [Union as a guarantee to Japan that nothing to fear from the Russians, Tt: wil be noted that the Germans 1|have made no denial of the reported Jeoncentration of troops on the Soviet border, whereas "the Russians "have the reports of tension between them jand the Germans are untrue. To set the Americans at rest as to the true Japanese, the story that there is nothing that the Japan-to counter this setback.
The recent concentration of German. technicians in Japan i not without significance. If the Japanese should move south to attack the Ne~ ther lands East Indies their presence may be accounted for.
the next week or two the real jon for the German and Russian tension may be known, but unless the Americans are prepared Manila, the British at Singapore and the Netherlanders at Batavia, the typical Hitler feint in Burope may jill the Democracies into a state of Far Eastern security that may give the Japanese and their German tech~ niglans a fair chance of success. In any case Hitler stands to win by his latest move, in that Russia may be buffed into' giving something more away, and at the same lime Turkey may be seared into a stale in which she may be neutralized. as already evidenced by the signing of the German-Turkish agreement.
To further substantiate my views as expressed above, the following two Hems may have some bearing. Firstly, the sinking of the Robin Moor, an American vessel, in the South Auantic, was an attempt to draw the American fleet from the Pacific to that region so that Japan in moving South would mop be menaced on her Jother flank. Secondly, the reported concentration of strong German naval and Luftwaffe units in northern Norway may be the prelude to an attempt at landing in Greenland. Thi move will be timed with the Japanese attack on the Netherlands East
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