VICTORY IN THE OFFING
THE sober view taken by the Whakatane Borough Council on the manner of celebrating the coming* peace, must find a warm endorsement in the hearts of most people who realise that even with an armistice in Europe the war is but as yet, only half won. There will still be unfortunately, vast numbers who will be required to fight and to die in the name of freedom before Japan is vanquished. The fullest return of peace cannot be achieved until such j;ime as the overthrow of Nippon, the last of the Axis powers whose combined might five years ago, made the of the entire world tremble in the balance. The Fascist Empire has all but crumbled to its ruin; the Nazi cult is in the swift process of crashing to its justly deserved doom; but Japan the nation of sixty million Mikado-wor-shipping fanatics, backed by another hundred million dupes from Manchuquo, and Korea, has yet to fall, and despite our greatest optimism her fall will not be an easy one. Posing as the champion of Asia, where whether we like it or not, we have to admit that one thousand million brown and yellow people have in the past been exploited and dominated by a handful of white commercial speculators, Japan blatantly recites her doctrine of 'the new order in Asia.' l That she succeeded to a very marked degree has been borne out by events in the Malay Peninsula, m Phillipines and in Burma, where her emissaries had obviously won many adherents amongst the native populations. To offset her influence in this connection however her own disgraceful behaviour towards her newly conquered regions whether they be friendly or otherwise, has had a telling and melancholy effect upon those who hitherto had regarded her as a deliverer. Japan's chances of setting Asia aflame appear therefore to be steadily declining as each new atrocity committed by her soldiery is advertised. But in Europe the greatest and most feared power in alliance of Dictatorship cannot possibly survive the teirihc force of invasion from three sides lor long. Vlct °J"y "J the offing but it will be only a stepping stone tc> the: final chapter of the greatest struggle of all I ?®'T t h h g h Jilit?nt he closed until the Orient has been freed from the militant threat of a race which recognises only the creed of force and of treachery.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 66, 20 April 1945, Page 4
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