The Icelandic Canadian - 01.10.1942, Blaðsíða 10

The Icelandic Canadian - 01.10.1942, Blaðsíða 10
6 THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN but the final objective is obvious. Adolf Hitler has made that quite clear. “The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. . . . Fascism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not? That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and an- nihilating it in Germany. . . . “A German Church, a German Chris- tianity is distortion. One is either a German or a Christian. You cannot be both.” Imperial Japan Germany is not alone. It has con- spired with Japan and taken Fascist Italy in tow. The Japanese are steeped in the same false idea of superiority as the Germans. In the systems both have evolved for carrying out their invented sense of Master Destiny, they vie with each other in brutality and ruthlessness. The final objective is (the same—world dom- ination. So *far neither has announced how both are going to be able to dom- inate the world at the same time. The Japanese mind has been infected much longer than that of the Germans. Bradford Smith says in Amerasia: “The mind of Japan, unfortunately, is far more dangerously infected be- cause the disease has been eating into the organism for several thousand years. . . . “Japan, long before the rise of Hitler, had a Fascist system with roots bedded deep in the native soil. Fanatic nation- alism based upon a preposterous racial myth, a military class exerting complete control over government and people by terrorism and intimidation, suppression of all free thought and free inquiry, a thorough spy system, and the exaltation of the racial-state as an end in itself— they are all there.” Official Japanese documents confirm this. One of these is the famous or rather infamous Tanaka Memorial. On July 25, 1927, Premier Baron G. Tanaka presented a state paper to the Emperor of Japan. This memorial was prepared, as Tanaka says, upon instructions to “lay plans for the colonization of the Far East” and also to “watch for op- portunities for further expansion.” To indicate the far-reaching and sweeping nature of the plan only one paragraph need be quoted: “Japan cannot remove the difficulties in Eastern Asia unless she adopts a policy of ‘Blood and Iron’. But in carry- ing out this policy we have to face the United States which has been turned against us by China’s policy of fighting poison with poison. In the future if we want to control China, we must first crush the United States just as in the past we had to fight in the Russo- Japanese war. But in order to conquer China we must first conquer Manchuria and Mongolia. In order to conquer the world we must first conquer China. If we succeed in conquering China, the rest of the Asiatic countries and the South Sea countries will fear us and surrender to us. Then the world will realize that Eastern Asia is ours and will not dare to violate our rights. This is the plan left (to us by Emperor Meiji, the success of which is essential to our national existence.” A booklet was published in' Tokyo in February, 1942, which is in many ways the Mein Kampf of Japan. According to it the Japanese are fighting a holy war. Once more the Emperor is said to be a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasa Omikami, and other Japanese the descendants of lesser Gods. Japan, it is claimed, is the motherland of all mankind, and the Japanese are divinely destined to bring erring mankind within the Japanese fold. In the booklet we find this appeal: “The present Greater Asia is virtually a second descent of the grandchild of the Sun Goddess, the mythological ancestor of the Japanese dynasty. Wherefore, the holy war will sooner or

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