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Foreign Office that it's all very irregular. Japan's agents in this country have become aware of thr [[the]] growth of this element and of the fact that the hostility of the rest is dormant, and have delightedly informed their government that now is the time to get at this receptive audience with reassuring propaganda. 

Now is the time, before Chinese resistance and the indifference of the Japanese army to the hardships of their own people breaks Japan, and before our government is moved by re-aroused opinions to cut off the flow of essential raw materials to the Japanese war machine, to divide our councils with wheedling propaganda. Those susceptible to wheedling should be inundated, they say, with assurances that Japan's motives in China are purely altruistic and that she proposes to improve the lot of that bandit, graft and tax-ridden people by fostering honest government, more railroads, more highways, a tremendous industrial development, scientifically planned agriculture, a reliable currency and adequate police protection so that under Japan's friendly patronage this country will at last find the market in China that it has always dreamed of, and will thank Nippon for the great sacrifice she is making to free a quarter if the world's population (or as much as is left of it when her work is done) from their own ancient traditions of tyranny and from the creeping Red paralysis.



Every recent Japanese publication that comes to me takes up and echoes the call to action in this country; and while the Japanese are clumsy propagandists, they are preserving and tireless, persistently courteous in the face of rebuffs and as plaintively mendacious as an Oriental beggar.

Now, I think it is high time that American public opinion be organized and marshal[[strikethrough]]l[[/strikethrough]]ed to forestall all wheedling appeals from Japan