Taiban Valley news., 1921-12-16
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR is NOT
AFFLICTED WITH "coNoES-
TioN OF THE CABLES"
WAS DELEGATIONS BIG MAN
Amusing Anti-American Propaganda
is Received From Tokyo - Dis
tinguished Foreigners in Washing
ton Like the Social Functions.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

trenches at Washington. Baron Shide-
hara, the ambassador of japan to the
United States, was forced to leave the
front the other day because Of Illness.
He did not respond to first aid and
now he is carried on the daily sick
report
Admiral Kato as figure In the con-
ference rather OverShadowed Baron
Shiderhara, so far as public visualiza-
tion of the scene went, but Shidehara,
nevertheless, was to many minds the
big man of the japanese delegation.
He did the preliminary work Of
preparation, and it was to him that
was due largely the fixing of the
japanese attitude toward the great
questions involved.
When the baron first was taken i'll
there were somewhat sighting intima-
tons that he was troubled with what
someone has called congestion of the
cables" or, in other words, that he
was staying away from the meetings
until he learned from the home land
what answers should be made to GER
tain outstanding propositions.
The baron was ill., and still is ILL.,
AS for the congestion of the cables, he
unquestionably knew and with COM
plete definHeness some weeks ago just
what position Japan intended to take,
and it is probable that it was due
to a considerable extent to his advice
that his government fixed its positions.
Some Propaganda From Tokyo.
Washington correspondents have re-
ceived several pamphlets from Tokyo
written by officials of the Japanese
government who are not at all kindly
disposed toward the United States.
These writings may express the feel
ings of the majority of the japanese
people, but if so the Japanese repre-
Sentatives here do not want it so
10 appear. 1t is very evident that the
japanese are going long way to
reach the goal of accord with the
representatives of other nations. Pos
sibly perhaps even probably, they are
making their way against their own
incllnations, but if they go ahead in
their way it probably will be a salts
factory one to the rest of the world.
Some of these japanese pamphlets
are not without their humOr because
of the errors which they make. Appar-
emily they are translated from the
japanese into English by a Japanese
who knows, or thinks he knows, the
language and the history of the United
States. Americans are told, for in
stance, that some particular event
just what it was l have forgotten
at this writing-happened during the
Presidency Of FRANKLIN Fillmore"
The other night all the delegates
went to another big reception given by
the commissioners to the District OF
Columbia in the National Museum
building. The foreigners turned out In
full force for about the tenth time
to attend social function. The
visitors do not seem to mind the over
entertaining. In fact they seem to like
it. Every country on earth, appar
emily, is exceedingly anxious to be or
good terms with the United States
The representatives of these coun
tries seem to think, and very likely
rightly, that through the teacup ant
the innocuOus punch bowl lies the
route to the pleasant land of friend
ship and affection.
Lord Riddell a Bralny Man.
o,.J Df1da11 xrybn 10 cnrt n
general information and publicity al
wiser for the British is on the e
| from one place to another during al
his waking hours when not engaged
in immediate advisory councils will
his British colleagues. Lord Riddell Il
half an American, for his mother wai
citizen of this good land of ours
| He believes in "hands across the sea,
and he knows how to back his be
lief with words of pleasantness. II,
has to keep a calendar Of daily event
with the hours marked large. He doe
things on schedule time. He walket
to the Mayflower society one nigh
and watched procession Of GovernO
Bradfords, John Aldens, Mile
] Standishes and others prior to makln
a really effective appeal for Anglo
American unity Of spirit.
Marshal Foch has gone again OF
his travels. Virtually the last affai
which he attended In Washington wa
one at the rooms of the Natlona
Press club where he was the CUES
of the National Press Club Post o
the American Legion, of which Con
rade Pershing is member TIL
marshal's little address on tina
occasion was rather more humorousl
pitched than anything he has sal
hitherto in the United States. He /
rather a grave soldier, this marshf
of France. Perhaps he was not alway
so, for the war may have left II
impress of gravity upon him.
New Tariff Long Delayed.
1t was believed by the leader
in congress apparently that hearing
could be held on the tarlf
and that the legislation could b
framed, passed and approved by tn
President by midsummer. Here 1t
snow time and the tariff bill is sti