NEW SLOGAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4

NEW SLOGAN

OFFERED BY PACIFIC COUNCIL “JAPAN FOR THE JAPANESE.” MEMBERS IN GOOD SPIRITS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) WASHINGTON, May 29. Members came av/ay from today’s meeting of the Pacific War Council in exceptionally good spirits. The New Zealand Minister, Mr Nash, acted as spokesman to the Press. He said members had adopted the slogan: “Japan for the Japanese.” Asked what this meant, Mr Nash told the Press to make its own interpretation. Reporters then suggested that it meant: “Push the Japanese back into their own islands and keep them there.” Members of the Council did not comment on this, ljut Pressmen gained the impression that there was an unanimous and earnest agreement on such a desirable objective. Mr Nash said the meeting v/as the most interesting yet held. They had outlined and examined a general picture which Mr Nash described as not bad, but, he said: “We have still a long way to go.” At this point Lord Halifax interposed:' “We are building up.” Mr Nash said President Roosevelt had described the details of BrigadierGeneral Doolittle’s magnificent exploit in bombing Tokio, which was very thrilling. Mr Nash added: “We will have to think up another of that type.” Dr. T. V. Soong (China) said they wished the slogan: “Japan for the Japanese” disseminated for general circulation and comment, from which a syntheses of ideas might’be drawn as to where we shall go from there, but Dr. Soong did not explain his parable.

Asked about China and the Chinese appeal for help, Dr. Soong replied that personally he had not received any appeals and had not seen any except in the Press, but, he said, “it does appear that Japan is attacking China from several new points, for instance, firstly in the Chekiang Province, on the coast; secondly, she is massing men and planes at Hankow; thirdly, there is .frontier fighting in the Yunnan Province, where the conflict at present is favourable to China.” GRAVE THREAT TO CHINA. Dr. Soong said: “It looks as if Japan is going to make a very serious effort to defeat China this summer.” Asked if this grave threat to China had been discussed at the Council, Dr. Soong replied in the negative, but explained that the Joint General Staff was considering the China situation all the time. Asked if China were satisfied with the help the United States had furnished so far, Dr. Soong replied: “China will never be satisfied until full victory is won.”

Reporters decided, from the way in which questions were dodged, that President Roosevelt was the author of the slogan: “Japan for the Japanese.”