The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-07-12
SHOULD FOSTER
 SENTIMENT FOR
 PEACE IN JAPAN

Tokie, June s3-Seperai thousand Japanese listened this week to an aa- dress by sahuEa shiH1ada, ex-speaker af the Heuse af Representatives and prominent Liberal, in which he at tackled the policy of 5apaa in it's foreign relations. The meeting was held uadeE the auspices ef Japanese Christians: bE: s: H: Waiardght.. presented his views.
 MT: shimada said:
 we were one af the five great powers during the European war, but we have succeeded in gaining i'll will since the var. The prejudice against the Chinese and Koreans. Our an taEenism te America on account of exclusion is not wholly just, or Cam dian and Australian exclusion is more rigid than American exclusion"
 After citing B number of actions eR the part pf Japan, all of which he Gharacterized adversely, he continued:
 My object in saying these things is ta lay the foundation for a broader and better national policy.
 we need te build pP public epiRien in Japan similar to the opin- ion now being created in the United States for the reauefioa of anna ments, for mutual good understand Ing between eurselHes and other na- fians, especially between us and the United States, and for the encourage nent of the interchanges of peace.
 :1t is extremely difficult to get fhe American people as a whole to cast vote in favor of war, so great is the Just such sentiments should be more diligently fosteIed in Japan Rival ry between Japan and America in battieship building is the height pf step in such 2 race"
 we must Fid the world ef the false suPposition that the growth and expansion ef one natio,s is at the ex- pense of the other nafiol,' said Dr. Wainright.
 t-The rise of Japan as a selling na- 1 tion is not a. menace to the trade of others. Every selling nation is at the same time an absorbing nation" | Both speakers were greeted heartily i by ths audience when they declared | for co-operation between Japan and | the Unified States in the limitation of armanents and in the cultivation in both countries of ideals of mutual good will.
 t-The Anglo-5apanese alliance has sion in 1909. but the fundamental spirit underlying the pact has never Kokumfnto political party as pub 1ished in the Yomiuri.
 fsIn the downfall of. both Russia and Germany the statement con
 
 has lost it's pre-eminent pbjectiVes and in consequences the circumstances are now quite different>1rom those un- der which it was first concluded.
 Japan would regret the abandon nent of an alliance which has been | in existence with great success dur ing the past 26 years, but realizes, at the same time, her real diplomatic position, which necessitates a special understanding with some reliable power. These considerations may be regarded as prominent factors ren- dering the further maintenance of the alliance highly desirable in the eyes of this empire, whife it must be from the consideration Of Indian interests that Great Britain faHors, if at all the continuation of the pact.
 .sThe question that claims the seri' ous consideration of Japanese at this moment is not whether Japan will bs isolated when the alliance is dropped but whether Japan has any confidence in her capacity to hold her own 1T ths future if she would find herself temporarily in an isolated eondi tiap'