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Thursday, November 6, 1941
DAILY NEBRASKA
Behind the News
By David Thompson.
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Compromise?
The truth of the rumours aired
in this column earlier this week
as to Japan's desire to compro
mise with the U. S. was substan
tiated by official sources yester
day who announced that Saburo
Karusu, the envoy who signed
the Japanese - German - Italian
agreement in 1940, is enroute to
the U. S. today. In the minds of
most Far Eastern observers it is
a last ditch effort on the part of
Japan to stave off a war that the
Japanese are pretty certain will
occur and soon.
Talks have been going on be
tween the Japanese and the U. S.
since Aug. but they have been
meeting with one stalemate after
another. Kurusu's trip, then, may
be a last effort by one of Japan's
ablest diplomats to explain the
Japanese position in the Pacific
and in doing so to convince the
U. S. that Japan is not a threat
to our position in southeastern
Asia.
To convince Washington offi
cials of that will take more than
the polished words of an excellent
diplomat, however, for Japan, in
decade of aggressions, has
pretty well indicated the character
of that nation with which we have
to deal in the Pacific.
Japan has been complaining of
the encirclement tactics of the
U. S., British and Dutch in the
Pacific. In reality Japan has
brought about her own encircle
ment, by her southward movement
into Thailand and Indo-China. By
such a move into the middle of
numerous British, Dutch and U. S.
bases at Hong Kong, Manila,
Singapore, and the Dutch East In
dies, the Japanese have to all
practical effects encircled them
selves. This is the opinion of our
navy department which contends
that Japan has made herself 100
percent more vulnerable to mili
tary and naval action by her
southward movement, and the
necessity of having to supply men
in these areas through seas that
will be made infernos by sub
marines and bombers.
Japan has been under heavy
pressure by Germany in the last
few weeks to declare herself in
this world conflict, and the Japa
nese are feverishly hunting for a
way out of the dilemma in which
they find themselves. Kurusu's
mission then may also be .an at
tempt on the part of Japan to find
a "face saving" method by which
they can extricate themselves
from their agreement of Aug.
1940 with the Axis. If the U. S.
will grant them certain things in
the Pacific, they may find it
worthwhile to disregard German
demands, if not the Japanese
newspapers threaten war with the
ir. S. in a hurry.
They can't bluff the U. S.
Council . . .
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percent of students work (accord
ing to the 2,000 vote), and tabu
lations of the different occupations,
as to wages, hours, conditions and
type of work are now being com
plied. Bringing in a note of social life,
was the positive vote that the
council meet for lunch for the first
time Monday noon in the main
dining room of the Union. It was
also decided that two or three
professors be Invited to each of
these luncheon get-to-gethers,
which will probably take place
every other week. Prof. Lantz,
council advisor and Prof. Carl
Arndt will be the guests at the
first gathering.
President Thiel reported the
need for secretarial help in the
council office.Members of organ
ized houses were urged to procure
the services of freshmen and
pledges who are in need of
activity points. Programs of the
council's purpose and work for
the year were handed out and discussed.