YENAN COMMENTATOR PREDICTS THAT JAPANESE BANDITS WILL BE SMASHED IN TWO YEARS
6 February 1942

[Text] HSIN-HUA NEWS AGENCY, Yenan, 6 February--According
to the Hai-t'ung [3189 6639] NEWS AGENCY, the NEW SHEN PAO,
Chinese-language edition of an official newspaper of the
Japanese Army in Shanghai, said that there is really no
need for China and Japan to fight each other and that
Chiang Kai-shek is responsible for the present erroneous
policy. With the exception of the Communist Party, the
paper said, all circles in China consider peace the best
policy. Right now, peace is the only way to save China
from following in the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty, the
paper added. The Yenan commentator refutes this viewpoint
as follows:

With the exception of traitors, all Chinese people think that the war of
resistance is the best policy. Today there is no alternative to the war
of resistance to save China from perishing. The Japanese fascists know that
there is a Communist Party in China now, but they should also know that there
was no Communist Party in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At that time
there was no Kuomintang, nor a Soviet Union, nor a Winston Churchill, nor a
Roosevelt. That is why the Manchus were able to overrun the Ming Dynasty.
The Japanese bandits can never conquer China today. As long as there is a
single Communist Party member, the Japanese will never be allowed to succeed in their intrigues. After all, we have patriotic people and patriotic
political parties all over China. In addition, we have the formidable Soviet
Union and the powerful Great Britain and the United States as our allies.
The victory of the Japanese bandits in the South Pacific is but an overture
to their collapse. Accompanying their victory is the dispersion and dissipation of their strength. The short legs of the Japanese bandits have been
stretched far and will be stretched even farther. The farther they are
stretched, the thinner they will become. It will take only 2 years for the
Japanese to be smashed. All people in China are vigilant toward the Japanese
bandits' enticements to surrender. We must persist in the war of resistance
for another 2 years. In 2 years, not only Japan, but also fascism as a whole
will collapse.

° CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 6 February 1942