The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-05
japanese Diplomat Re-
veals Much Concern
ing the Alliance of His
l. and With Great
Britain
ny JEANNETTE L.. GLIDER.

w re have had secret documents"
\A/ of one kind or another pub
w lished from time to time
since the outbreak of the
present wicked war. but most Of them
have come from Germans Of alleged
high official position who over MONS
de guerre or no names. at all have
told tales out or school. Now we have
a Japanese official telling what he
knows about the Anglo-Japanese al
lance.
The writer of the present volume has
recently died, but his editor proclaims
his name boldly from the title page. so
That there can be no doubt as to the
authenticity of the statements made.
Secret Diplomatic Memoirs" by
Count Tadasu Hayashi. will be pub
lished Immediately by the Messrs. Put
MANS Son and will be read and
widely discussed, as there IS much in
the book of Importance to the United
States. The late Count Hayashi was at
one time Ambassador from Japan to
Great Britain. He was also Foreign
Minister m Minister. of Commerce
n Agriculture at the court OF Japan.
In the present volume he traces some
OF the great consummations of re-
cont Japanese diplomacy. OF especial
interest to American readers are the
chapters in which the author discusses
the American Japanese convention of
1903 and reviews the foreign policy
OF Japan.
Count Hayashi had unusual advan-
tages for carrying on diplomatic rela-
Tons with this country and with Eng
land, g he could speak the English
language, which he learned in the
house of an American missionary In
Japan and also in English schools.
Count Hayashi was not only n diplo-
Dnatist but he was also n prolific
writer for the press of his country,
though not always over his own name.
= One of the most serious mistakes that
Count Hayashi made was In under
estimating American interests in
Corea and China. A japanese proverb
reads: "The COW thinks she can drink
the river ry."'Hayashi. says A. NJ.
I'oolcy, the editor of this volume, in
dcalinC with the American question
was the COW OF the Japanese proverb.
lie was too sure of himself and OF his
abilities. Both Aoki and Hayashi rec
o3nizcd"tf1at' China was the crux Of
The difficulty between Japan and
americaaio Mr.. Pooley, who has had
unusual opportunities for studying at
FIRST hand the questions discussed in
tl.is book, writes: ''"
"Aoki realized that IL the problem
Of China We're settled Japan would be
tble to maintain her credit at WASH
ington, for the school and immigration
affairs were local difficulties on which
t was uncertain even that Japan was
IN h right. Hayashi tried to shut
cut America from China by raising
difficulties for her nearer home. He
allied to realize that the Americans
are n hard headed business race. with
I strong ~undercurrent of sentiment
,ality. To their remonstrances with
'egard 20 Manchuria he retorted by
raising the school question. They
ame back with the immigration
rouble. and Hayashi found tina he
had slunK n boomerang which re-
turned i'm t'ouble' quick time. bringing
with ii the whole of the credit which
Japan had so carefully amassed in the
States during fifty years past.
I'm a few months he killed the long
MISUNDERSTANDING between Amer
ca and Japan, and in place has been
substituted ,on the one side an openly
expressed dtstttesand suspicion and on
The other a,,sWRsltng hatred which is
only kept wttJ11taarnan geable bounds
by official GiSh."
Probably. No atiplosuntic instrument
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