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THE HAWAII SENTINEL        THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1944
Koreans Protest Statements
Of Dr. Henry D. Appenzeller
For Delaying Independence
Editor, The Sentinel:—The five
Korean organizations in Hawaii
are united in their protests to
statements made by Dr. Henry D.
Appenzeller Under the topic "Supervisory Period Needed Before Korean Independence" as published in
the Honolulu Advertiser of February 17th.
First of all, we want to emphasize once again, before the American public that Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910 by force
against the will of the people, that
in 1919 over 23,000,000 Koreans were united to declare complete national independence from
the unjust, treacherous and inhuman rule of Japan and that the
Koreans   have   been   continuously
I fighting for their full freedom despite the loss of lives and properties by the harsh and barbarous
Japanese.
Dr. Appenzeller, now the pastor
of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church in Honolulu, who had been
a missionary to Korea for 20 years
is well mastered in its language,
its history, and its culture. Furthermore he knows the aspiration of the Koreans for full and
complete independence. Against
his own knowledge of the language, history and aspirations of a
homogeneous people and against
his long existing friendship among
a peace and freedom loving people, Dr. Appenzeller. dared to advocate to place Korea under supervisory period before her complete
independence, by saying "Korea
Will    require    a    strong    central
, government of her own choosing,
but supervised for a time by some
outside nation—perhaps China or
Russia."
Dr. Appenzeller, our dear friend!
We want to remind you that Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and
his government promised the complete independence of Korea and
assured it to the Korean leaders
at Chungking. Marshal Stalin of
Russia declared that Russians are
not only fighting for the liberation of the Russian people but for
the freedom of all the oppressed
peoples in Europe and Soviet-Russia has recently promised post-war
autonomic right to the sixteen Republics in the Soviet Union. Dr.
Appenzeller, can't you see that neither China nor Russia has desire
or intention to place Korea under
its direct supervision or even leadership. Then, where will you find
a "guardian" for Korea?
We firmly believe that the American people are fighting for full
freedom and equality of mankind,
under the great and intelligent
leadership of their President,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the author
of the four freedoms. It is clear
enough that the United States of
America does not have any designs
to rule Korea, even for a short
period, against the will of the Korean people.
In emphasizing the attitude of
the American public, we would
like to mention the statements
written by two American writers.
First, Pearl S. Buck in her book
"What America Means To Me"
wrote—"We have another asset in
the Koreans, a people long and
cruelly subject to Japan and now
eagerly* looking forward to their
independence when allied victory j
becomes a fact. If we could make
them know that their independence
is truly a part of our allied cause,
a promise to be kept, we could
mobilize to our side the millions of
Koreans. Who could speak to
Asia more eloquently than these
of the tyranny of Japan?"
Second, Harry Paxton Howard
in his book "America's Role in
Asia" wrote —"The Koreans are
fully capable of building up what
police forces are necessary in their
own country and of contributing
their full share to the military forces which will be necessary for a
real international authority. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans are
already trained fighters. Tens of
thousands have carried on in guerrilla groups, often in cooperation
with Chinese.
' . . . And Can Fight!
Tens of thousands of Koreans
have seen military service in Chinese armies fighting the common
enemy. There can be no reasonable doubt of their ability to fight.
'What have  we   to   gain  by  sup
porting democratic self-government of Korea? Everything that
can possibly matter to a democracy.
Representative government and
civil liberty can not survive in a
world dominated by slave states
and force-founded empires. We
need allies for democracy, for the
war and i for the peace. And we
need, if any Asiatic peoples are to
trust and believe us, to cleanse our
record—so far as we can do so
today—of the long-standing shame
of our betrayal of Korea."
Koreans are happy over the promise of Korean Independence in
the Cairo Declaration by the "Big j
Three." Koreans everywhere are I
ready to intensify the efforts of
their fighting forces against the
Japanese, coordinating with the
offensive of the Allies in the Pacific. We will gain our full freedom and complete independence
through the tears, sweat and blood
of our people.
Signed by: The Korean Dong Ji
Society
The Korean National Revolutionary Party,  Hawaii Branch
The Korean Christian Church
The   Korean Women's  Relief
Society
The Korean American  Council
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