New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-03
'TSINC-TAO CALLED
.CRUX OF U.S.. POLICY
"Open Door" to China Al
fected by Japan Taking
1t from Germany.
WILSON DUPED, IT Is
SAID. BY WALL STREET
Lewis Einstein Asserts Concert
of Action in Orient Is Neces-
sary to Success.

sary to Success.
/ "If the great wa IS likely TO AFFECT
the future of the United states IN more
WAYS than is commonly realized the
Iapanese siege of Tsing-tao has per-
haps been the FIRST event 20 awaken
our appreciation of the different points
Of contact with it's political aspects
SAWS Lewis Einstein. formerly urst sec
rotary OF :he American Legation a.
I Picking, in an article for . he Journa,
of the American Asiatic Association
on Japan at Tsing-tso and American
Policy"
Certainly the disappearance OF Ger
man rule is. even for Us, no unmlAed
evil" Mr.. Einstein continues. Inc
; elimination of a political foothold III
A colony containing the necessary base
for. vast political ambitions should
rather prove welcome IN checking
permanent temptation and forcing Ter
many to henceforth support IN all SIN
cerity and without Interior purpose the
oper door policy and the integrity OF
China.
/ 1.-THE substitution Of Japan Is less
/ desirable" he says, and expresses the
opinion that the promise TO restore th'
/ territory 10 China will not comprise
more than the vague acknow ledgment
3 of sovereignty. Our objection lies IN
/ change of masters and seeing nation
already powerful on the Asiatic MAIN
land increasing its prestige ana us
holdings Reiterating previous assur-
snces regarding the open door and re-
affirming respect for the integrity OF
China. II Japanese diplomacy prob
ably will take calm posses sion OF us
conquest and proceed 10 develop the
careful German beginning in the same
systematic way as in Corea and south
crn Manchuria. The problem to real
/ ize is the extent TO which this occupa-
ton affects M and what course OF ac-
tion commends itself in consequence.
Wall Street Duped Wilson
Turning to President Wilson's attl-
tude toward China. the writer says:
Almost the first act of his admins
tration was without further consider
alton to put an end to the association
( with the bankers and. as a direct result
of this, with the somewhat astonlshed
foreign powers in cooperation with
whom he had been working. The 20
poets of the question, so far as they
affected our broader interests in China
or the future OF American policy, were
all waived withoI more ado. Mr.. VIII
son thus played unconsciously into the
hands of Wall Street which concealed
ts gratitude for resculng it from an
Improbable cortract, but whose dupe
he has been in this perhaps more than
he has ever suspected. In defence Of
/ his position Mr.. Wilson came out with
statement expressing fear lest the
continuation of our previous policy
might imply touching near to the adj
ministrative independence of China.
ut is not unlikely that greater famil-
iarity with the question than the time
al his disposal permitted would have
convinced him that the administrative
independence Of China had so long been
endangered and possessed so little in
herent vitality that the possibility of
a.y collective control far from in
cressing the peril lessened Il. and that
we neither benefited China by with
drawing her only disinterested friend
nor ourselves in the future economic
development of the Far East.
"0ncc more we reverted TO our an
cient hsphazard position OF uncertainty
veneered by certain ostentation of
profered services toward China, to
bring our diplomacy, at least superb
cially, into line with present day fash
ion. But the value Of such services i'm
excess of what had previously been ac-
complished has as yet not transpired.
while our own benefits have failed 10
impress themselves on the lsyman.
Gas il is, we find ourselves perpleXed
in our diplomatic isolation at a time
when Japan is about to occupy Using
tao. Not wishing 10 make too active
remonstrsnces. which might cause US to
drift toward an impossible alliance with
Germany, We are obliged to accept at
their face value such assurances as
Japan has seen fit 20 give. Few things
are so certain as that for the present
we cannot do otherwise. The future of
: Tsingtao viii. however. largely depend
on our policy at this time.
Urges Concert of Nations.
"In spite of the present war. the prin-
/ ciple of concerted action in diplomacy
1 is no passing phase. nor will any mil
lennium restore the splendors of isoEa-
1 ton. In a survey of the future. unless
We are willing to subscribe to the les
/ sening OF means of communication. il is
apparent that nations will become more
rather than less connected. and as such
Will often find 1T advantageous to pur-
/ sue identical lines of policy, especially
/ IN Oriental countries. The marked re-
/ luctance 10 enter into any concerted
action involving the slightest response
| bility has been among the most pro-
nounced fallacies of much American di-
i plomacy in the past
While endeavoring thereby 10 Sc
cure moral sanction for our interpre-
tation of the Monroe Doctrine. il
4 failed utterly 10 accomplish this and
/ imposed on our policy a rigidity and
absence of Suppleness which deprived
4 II IN great measure of utility as free
instrument in sustaining oversee inter
| ests. The war would in any case have
for the time arrested the financial
action of the concert in China. But
though Germany must have provision
ally withdrawn from it. there is no
reason why we should have done so,
or why We should not have been Of
real assistance TO the numerous Ger
man interests desiring the preserva-
tion of the open door
"Such a position would in no way
have been incompatible with the obi
CATIONS Of our neutrality. Ii we were
acting to-day as the associates of Great
I Britain, France. Russia and Japan in
. the Far East, for the defence OF GER
tain policies subscribed to by all the
powers, we would find ourselves in far
better position to secure from the out
set japanese subscription to pledges
t'hicf' would make her tenure Of
Tsing-tao less Objectionable. and might
thus even. render. distinct services = to
Germany.
at remains to be seen if Mr. Wilson
Vill be far-sighted. enough to con-
struct afresh what he had first de-
molished and rebuild the ruins of our
former entry into the concert of ma
,ions which no so LIGHT heartedlv do