WASHINGTON: “That part of the great nation of China which is occupied or controlled by the Japanese furnishes for the whole world an example of the abject failure of totalitarian regimes to accomplish the results they promised,” writes Admiral Harry O. Yarnell, former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.

“The bondage and suffering in occupied China today are the direct result of the same organised conspiracy of greed and gore which the militarists of Japan and Germany carried on to occupy nations as far separated as Denmark and Burma. The war lords of Japan and the Nazi rulers of Germany worked separately. Indeed today they are completely isolated from each other, unable to cooperate in any way. But their goals and methods are almost identical.

“The striking fact about the philosophy of totalitarianism is that both Japan and Germany have had a chance to try it out thoroughly and its failure is a proved fact. There is no better illustration of this than occupied China.

“It is now over 12 years since Japan first began her attempted conquest of China. Today the inhabitants of that part of China where the Japanese are in uneasy control are far worse off in every way than before. Their position has deteriorated daily since the Japanese invaded and they are only awaiting the day when they can effectively strike against the Japanese to liberate themselves...”

Published in Dawn, January 10th, 2019