The Archive · 1941

Japan Shows Weakness

London, Feb: 19

Now, Germany is moving into Japan," says the "Dally Herald "The Japanese Foreign Minister ig obliged to announce the arrival of German technicians and ask support of the public for the step. This, Femember, is the public which has been fod for years on the legend of Japanese eif-suMeloney" and of Japan's right and Mtness to organize Asiatic life without European help or interference.

"There was atime when Japan assiduously copied British methods and gained strength thereby. In re front years, her extremists have ro-feted: violently against this associa tion, only. to collapse into the arms of the most calculating, most trea eherous of her European allies Miter.

"What will the Japanese people think about this confession of weak ness and dependence upon the s0- called equal party in the Axis? How Jong will they, and all other popu ations whose leaders have accepted the new order,' endure their posi. tion of inferiority when every week brings fresh evidence of the Nazis boundless ambition and rapacity?

"While we fight the Nazis, let remember the bewildered populations who are being harnessed to Hitler's Purpose of world conquest. Their disillusionment may hasten the collapse of Nazism's "whole crazy structure," the "Daily Herald" con Greeks Advance on Central Front Athens, Fob. 1 Further Greek successes are re= ported from. the Albanian front. Local offensive operations have oust ed the enemy from several points, a Greek communique announces. Greek advanced units took 250 pri soners and a quantity of military materials. "One enemy plane was Reported to have been shot down In the sector between Maskopolis, and Tepelini Italian troops. were said to have been routed, leaving behind military" equipment and stores, 'A drive into the central part of the Italian front between Klisura and Tepelini was, also reported in the communique—Reuter.

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