Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-23

tho SHincSc national costume, ana IL
it were apparent that he had taken
kindly to the religion of China, under
these circumstances we would hardly
recognize him as a typical American.
A DapPer Chinese Delegate
VIII Allen White printed the other
day an amusing picture of the most
conspicuous of the Chinese delegates,
Wellington koo. He is easily the
best dressed man at the conference"
wrote Mr.. White. land delights in =
certain festive pink shirt which he
tones down with the most correct and
sombre black coat and trousers, cut
ting what we Americans west of the
Mississippi river are please 70 call
'nobby' fashion. His collars are a bit
temperamental and of a certain col
legian josousness that cheers but does
not inebriate."
Mr.. koo is very sophisticated. very
smart and up-to-date; but one won
ders little is he really Chinese IN
his heart and in his culture.
However. all that is immaterial No
one doubts that the Chinese delega-
ton is working for the interests OF
China, and that the program they
have laid is for the good of that an
Gent kingdom. The difficulty is that
the present state of China puts the
whole burden of saving her chiefly on
the shoulders of the United States.
AS between the other two big nations.
Great Britain and Japan. the latter
has always been universally charged
with having Sal6sh nd
Intentions towards China. The Japa-
nese say now, however. that they arc
ready to abandon their old attitude
and help us rehabilitate China in the
way that is hest for China. 1t can
lie accepted with a good deal of con-
hdence that as the discussion of China
ripens Japan will he found accepting,
without too much reluctance, the Am
erican point of view.
British policy about China has been
somewhere midway between American
policy and Japanese policy. Great
Britain is ready to join US in saving
China. II that is the program to which
everybody else agrees. On the other
hand, if the program is to exploit
China. Great Britain purposes to be in
the race. Great Britain would prob
ably have Joined in the disposition to
save emma at an earlier date ard with
more heartiness if she were not liz
tie restrained by the AngIo-Japanese
Alliance. The worst thing about that
alliance has always been that it pre-
vented Great Britain from standing
with us as often as the British people
nd nh rll
ing Chinas integrity.
Under cover of the Anglo-Japancsc
Alliance Japan has always been able
to take bigger chances in violating
the open door than she would other
wise have done.
However, that IS all a thing OF the
past. The Anglo Japanese Alliance
will go by the board. either formally
or through process of obsolescence
America isn't as deeply concerned in
having the Anglo japanese Alliance
formally terminated as is commonly
imagined. The alliance will expire
naturally, and will be superseded by
the agreements very soon to be ar
rived at in the conference. These
agreements will consist almost wholly
Of the American programme What
America proposes about China will
he accepted in its essence by Great
Britain and Japan. That will he the
end of the conference so far as Far
Eastern questions are concerned.
OF course Great Britain and Japan
will go home with a little less conf
dence in the certainty and perma-
hence of our Chinese programme
than we ourselves have Great
Britain and Japan will always con-
tInue to wish that an alliance of the
three nations had been set up TO keep
the door open. They feel that it is
rot enough for the present confer
ence merely to lay down the prinei-
pies of the open door. They think
there ought to be- for the future, a
continuously functioning alliance to
keep the door open and to dispose of
questions arising under it. But that
is made impossible by the opposition
of the American Senate to all alli-
ances Of this kind.
The end Of the conference will be
that broad and fairly detailed de-
clarati0n of principles will he laid
down and all the powers will agree
to it. The progress towards this out
come is much faster than is COM
monty realized.
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