"On to Delhi!"

The pattern grew plainer. Japan was directing every facet of psychological warfare toward the detachment of India from the United Nations' camp. Since March the Jap has been dangling pseudo-independence before one unit after another in her Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Nanking was first. Burma and the Philippines heard about their good luck in June. This month Thailand received chunks of territory transferred from the Malay States as an earnest of better things to come (TIME, July 12). With every move, Tokyo Radio beamed long accounts, in English, at India.

Back in Tokyo from a fortnight's flight through Greater East Asia, Premier Hideki Tojo last week announced that the entire Co-Prosperity Sphere "understands Nippon's true intentions and is concentrating full efforts to destroy the Anglo-American powers."

Best sample of "understanding" came from Singapore, where the renegade Indian nationalist, Subhas Chandra Bose, addressed the nucleus of what he hopes will become an Indian "army of liberation." Said the ubiquitous Bose: "When France declared war on Germany, the cry on every German soldier's lips was 'On to Paris!' When the brave soldiers of Nippon set out in December 1941, the cry was: 'On to Singapore!' Comrades, let your cry be 'On to Delhi!'" Noting that India lacks an army of her own, Bose added: "George Washington had an army when he won freedom. Garibaldi had an army when he liberated Italy. Follow me, in darkness and in sunshine, in sorrow and in joy. ... I shall lead you to victory and freedom."

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