Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-11-18
Japan Working for an AmicabIe
Adjustment Of the Dispute
With United States.
okuMA VOICES OlsC0N1ENT
Armisttce Day Celebration In the Al
lied countries-Eminen Men at
Geneva for First Meeting of
League ct Nations Assem-
Acknowledgements in
Near East.
BY EDWARD W. PICARD.

Takashi Hara. premier OF Japan;
Baron Shidehar:,. japanese ambassa-
dor to the United States, and Roland
Morris, AmeHicin ambassador to
japan, all are hopeful, even conf
dent, that better understanding be-
tween The two nations will soon be
brought about and that intcrnationaf
relations are in no grave danger of be-
ing overstrained. Marquis Dkuma,
former premier, is by no means so OPP
timistic ssace the Californians in
dorsed their anti-alien land law. In
an address before Il general meeting
Of the Japanese immigration associa-
ton last week in Tokyo, Okuna said
'It Is strange how cool the japanese
are towards problem deciding the
E.. ot their brothers In America
The anti-Iapanese movement in the
United States, he asserted "ndangcrs
relations not only between Nippon and
America, hut also between ,I;lptn and
other powers.
Germany" he said. "was reduced
from leadership among nations be-
cause she ignored the principles of JUS
tice and humanity, and now America,
ignoring them, is setting an example
that Cnnndn and Australia will prob
ably follow
"Must we, one of the five great
powers, .emain silent when others act
inhunanely and lmjustly towards our
nationals? That is not the way The
welfare OF humanity is promoted"
Premier Hara regards the Ealifor-
mia agitation as sectional and not rep
resenting the country at large. and be
lieves that if the thinking people in
| both countries are careful not to let
1 the agitniiOn go To extremes. sound
| Judgment eventually will prevail and
| the matter will he satisfactorily adj
| justed.
| Undoubtedly it will be left to the
new administration and the new sen
ate TO make the adjustment, which
may take the form of new treaty.
The plan favored by Japan is that
| Japan shall undertake TO prevent fur
ther Japanese migration to the United
States and that our government shall
| undertake to safeguard the property
rights Of the Japanese already in the
country. Tokyo would prefer to have
this in the form of strengthened
"gentlemen's agreement" but Cover
nor Stephens and other leaders of
opinion in California maintain the
Japanese question never will be set
tied permanently until the gentle
mems agreement is abrogated, jap
anese excluded by statute and Japa-
nese property-holding rights restrict
ed, as contemplated by the California
referendum measure.
Armistice day, the second anniver-
sary Of the ending of the World war
was httingly observed by all the al.
lied and associated nations. The cere-
monies in London and Paris were es-
pesially impressive. In the presence
Of King George, the heads Of the gov,
7 ernment and the relatives of missing
soldiers, the body Of an unknown war.
riOr was inferred in Westminster alb
hey, this being the highest honor Eng
land can pay to one of her dead and
in Whitehall the king unveiled a per
manent. cenotaph dedicated to "the
glorious dead"
The French took the body Of an un
identified soldier from the cemetery a
a verdun and inferred it beneath thu
5 Arc de Triomphe. President Millerant
& and Marshsls Foch, Joffre and Petail
t4alnns1k,ip the ceremony. Then th'