The sun., 1919-08-20
WILLARD ACCUSED
AS TROUBLE MAKER
Statements to Senate Commit
tee Called an Assault on
Honor Of Japan.
GREAT ALLIES INVOLVED
Imputation Of Deception on
"Secret Engagements" Re-
scented by NJ. B. Mcintosh.

Milton B. McIntosh, tcho has been a
frequent contributor to the Far EdsteTn
Section Of THE SUN on questions d1ect-
ing Japan, has toritten the folio,cino In
the form Of an open letter to Thomas
F. MUldrd ~ dnstocr to statements made
before the Foreign Relations Committee
Of the United Stdtes Senate:
It was hoped that you would have
shown more discretion than to appear
before the Foreign Relations Committee
of the United States Senate as you did
on Monday Of this week and there in
dulge in your supreme passion and really
expose yourself and your true purpose,
but since you have selected this channel
and have dared to place before the public
this indictment OF one o. our allies, II
behooves those who see through such
attempts to answer in complete frank
ness.
You may be able to hold the stage at
hearing of the Foreign Relations Com
mttee. where out of respect for your
supposed position as expert on the Far
East such course would demand, but to
expect the people at large to accept I'M
challenged your vicious and unjustifiable
assault upon the integrity and honor OF
friendly nation is inconceivable. and
here invite you to note the following
comments, for which I assume full re-
sponsibility. II you are the expert on
Far Eastern affairs, as many believe. you
will make a real contribution to our
knowledge by replying specifically to this
letter.
Light on Secret Engagement.
You state according to yesterdays
Sun: Let the State Department at the
request of the Senate call on the British
and French Governments for information
concerning any as yet unpublished en-
Eagements between France and Great
Britain on one side and Japan on the
other whereby France and Britain are
bound 10 support Japan hereafter in her
efforts to retain her position in Shantung
instead Of returning the Shantung rights
to China, as she agrees in the treaty.
There is much reason to believe that
such secret engagements have been
made.
IF the State Department knows moth
ing Of them let the Senate request that
1t categorically question the French and
British Governments and induce them to
disclose the facts. Let Ii be understood
that our disposition toward the Franco
American pact to maintain the European
balance of power will depend very
largely on their attitude regarding the
Far East They want something from
us at this time. Get from them in ex-
change, the pledge that IL In future q
conflict arises In the East over the set
Element Of the great issues that are de-
reloping there they will take our side
of it. That is the method OF practical
world politics. That could be done with
oh IA npt ,nr1 In, ~. &.>.
out an Interpretation of reservation.
obtain these pledges and we would
be insured that IL ever the time came for
Japan to decide whether she would exc
cute her ultimate policy Of remaining in
China she would realize that she was
confronted by an overwhelming force and
that II would not do to repudiate her
agreements as to Shantung."
Honor of Allies Involved.
IN your first suggestion your plan
amounts to an imputation OF the honor
of not only our own Government but of
our allies as we'll You must know that
no matter what kind OF agreements or
treaties. secret or otherwise. have been
entered into by those nations who will
comprise the league, their terms must
be made known to the league and be
approved in principle by il. To make
use of words as you have here which
carry the idea that there is good rea-
son to believe that our two stanch
allies have deliberately and are DELHI
erately deceiving US is a course which
l am afraid you will have great difh-
Guilty in defending. Secret agreements
have been entered into in the past be-
tween nations as matter OF course
when that seemed necessary for their
mutual development and protection
perhaps some have bean made with in
trigue as their basis. but simply be-
cause such have been known to have
been made in the past are we to origin
ate such suspicious and give them the
tons OF international insulty Mr.. MIL
lard, what are you trying to do here
by suggesting such calumny? Is IL
YOUR purpose to contribute to the gen.
eral peace and harmony Of tho world, or
are you in fact attempting to SANDER
the peoples with whom We have fought
side by side through the war. and come
TO know and to love. with the hope of
thus building up a background Of hypo-
thetical fear and doubt, SO that we will
in our madness seek even your wild and
eKtravagant panacea?
Our Pledge to France.
In our pledge OF support to France
II is contingent upon her being made
the object OF an unprovoked attack by
Germany. We are here. referring to
the possible activities of nation with
whom We have been at war; not upon
the theory that perhaps Great Britain
might rise IN her might some day and
start trouble with France and 1 ask
YOU to defend your position when you
suggest the possibility of our having TO
face dlshonorable course taken by our
other ally, Japan. No one will justify
you in this effort to create an issue
where none exists. and we are tired OF
your incessant endeavors to so obscure
tho horizon and see only your mirage OF
war.
II you wish to rehabilitate yourself
in the esteem of the peace loving COM
monwealth of America you will be
obliged to turn your attention and your
remarkable powers to a calling more in
consonance with the spirit OF construc-
tive cooperation. Don't .misleed yourself
with the notion that simply because you
have been residing among a people
where intrigue has become the order of
the day that this necessarily applies to
Japan. am surprised that an expert
'on the Far East would knowingly place
his knowledge of common history in
such an unfavorable light. Are you
ignorant or are you really trying to
deceive US with this transDarently alb
surd hypothesis? II the former. may I
suggest that you consult the Encyclo-
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