Abstract

Editorials

In this article, the editor discusses about the matter related to world politics. The Japanese would never have begun this war if German dictator Adolf Hitler had not won such signal successes in Europe, their only hope of averting a disastrous finish depends on the defeat by Germany of Great Britain and Russia. And contrariwise, if one licks the hell out of Japan but allows Great Britain to fall, one shall have merely exchanged a Japanese threat to one's security for a much more serious German one. Even if Russia does not at once declare war on Japan, war in the Far East means that the Soviet garrisons in eastern Siberia will have to be maintained and possibly reinforced. The strength of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor seems difficult to reconcile, at first thought, with the frequently repeated fads regarding Japan's basic economic weakness.