Robert Bellaire

              ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Correspondent WHO WAS HELD PRISONER BY JAPANESE IN TOKYO

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DEFIED JAP DEMANDS THAT HE BROADCAST PROPAGANDA AS AMERICAN LORD HAW HAW

A Stirring Appeal To Americans To Recognize Necessity For All-Out Effort To Defeat The Enemy

ROBERT BELLAIRE went through six months of terror and starvation in Japan's worst concentration camp.  He was brutally tortured when he refused to be Japan's radio voice for broadcasting insidious propaganda directed at the United States.  He recently returned with the repatriated American diplomats and correspondents, and now tells the story of Japanese atrocities committed on captives.  He saw the many acts of courage by those who lived in fear of brutal death at the hands of their captors.  You will wonder how they survived.

Robert Bellaire typifies the young American correspondent who is recording history on the spot.  He knows the strength of the Japanese, their diabolical cleverness, their expert planning, and also the danger of underestimating them.  He has seen how Japanese militarism terrorizes civilization.  He knows what effect it will have on world order, unless the Axis powers are defeated.  He makes an impassioned appeal to Americans to recognize, before it is too late, the danger that threatens this nation with every successful Axis campaign.

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ROBERT BELLAIRE
Oriental problems and politics have featured the news beat of Robert Bellaire since he joined the United Press Far Eastern staff, and he spent several years prior to the entry of the United States into the war in covering the Sino-Japanese situation and managing the Tokyo Bureau of the news-gathering organization.  He saw the military preparations of the Japs and warns America that they are a major enemy, a power that must be crushed or we face bitter results in world order.

A graduate of Columbia University, Mr. Bellaire had his groundwork in reportorial work on newspapers in the United States and then joined the United Press in its Shanghai Bureau.  From there he handled UP'S general news coverage.  With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, Mr. Bellaire went right into the thick of the fighting.  He toured bomb-scarred Chungking during Japanese air raids on the provisional capital and more than once narrowly escaped death.

In 1941 he was made manager of the Tokyo Bureau of the United Press and kept close watch on what was going on in Japanese circles as the Land of the Rising Sun massed its military strength preparing to launch its blow at the United States.

During the days that he was held captive he gained a vivid picture of the true character of the Japanese, and although he went through gruelling torture, there was impressed upon his mind an everlasting picture of the importance to America for every citizen to give of his utmost to the war effort.

Mr. Bellaire's intimate knowledge of what is going on in Japan makes his lecture of utmost importance to the nation.  His sincere appeal, his brilliant perception and his dynamic personality make his lecture one of the most timely that can be given.  At every platform appearance he has been acclaimed by large audiences.



Comments on Robert Bellaire
Freedom House is most tremendously grateful to you for your brilliant speech of last night …

Everyone was thrilled by your story and we feel that you did a swell job in telling the audience what total war is to Japan … so many nice things were said about your talk.

Good luck on the lecture tour.

MRS. PAUL WHITE NEW YORK, N. Y.

All seating space and standing room was taken in the Mayfair Hotel ballroom and approximately two hundred people were turned away.  Mr. Bellaire entertained this large group for an hour and held everyone's undivided attention during his entire talk.

He gave a very sincere, clear picture of the Japanese situation.  His personal experiences were especially interesting—his delivery and choice of words were excellent.  This young man undoubtedly has unusual ability and would prove a very entertaining speaker for any type of intellectual group.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SIOUX CITY, IOWA.

Mr. Bellaire was very enthusiastically received by a large audience.  His factual material growing out of vivid living experiences, as well as his charming presence, was most helpful to all of his listeners.

Any audience of Americans or in the United Nations will profit greatly in information and understanding by hearing the message of this brilliant young American who rose so rapidly to a position of great responsibility with the United Press and with his Government.

BRONXVILLE COMMUNITY FORUM BRONXVILLE, N. Y.



Lecture Jopics for Robert Bellaire
JAPAN—SIX MONTHS BEFORE PEARL HARBOR—SIX MONTHS AFTER—.  Personal observation of the events in Japan which preceded and followed the assault on Hawaii and Manila; the economic and political situation in Japan; atrocities committed on American captives.

THE MEN BEHIND THE WAR IN JAPAN—Character sketches of Japanese leaders—Tojo, Hirohito, et al.

HOW JAPAN HOPES TO BEAT US—A comparison of the Japanese war effort with that of the United States.



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