Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-15
GERMANY IS VIEWING
ARMAMENT FARLEY
WITH KEEN INTEREST
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN
(Germany's Foremost Publicist)
.(Lnased Wire Service to The Journal.l
(Copyrignt, 1921


rope to hope from the pacific con-
ference in Washington which was
rendered necessary by the sins of
omission and commission on the part
of European governments?
Three continental powers-Russia,
Germany and France-showed hos
tility toward Japan at their first
opportunity, and robbed her Of the
profits Of victory over China, which
| she believed had been insured by
| the treaty of Timonoseki. The same
Russian Admiral Makarcff, whose
| threats destroyed that treaty, was
| blown up on his flagship before Port
Arthur, a victim of japanese re-
venge.
Because Nippon's wounded war
| rior pride was not healed and be-
| cause greedy Russian spectators,
despite the warnings of the wise Ii
| Hung Chang, reached for Liaotung,
Yalu and Korea, Great Britain easily
gained Japan as an ally against
ozarism, which was then threaten
| ing India, and thus a European is
land empire caused Russias mill
tary power to be destroyed by Asi.
atics.
Only the United States, which
wisely never sought territorial gain,
seemed to realize the. consequences
of a great victory by a yellow ma
ton over white.
Japan Has Risen
+ But Japan became a great power,
and has risen immensely in self
/ nCfn To- Oln
| more, has encouraged other Asiatics
the Turks, the Persians and the
| Tartar slavs of Moscow-to attempt
to recover their ruined power by
modernizing their state organiza-
| ton.
Meantime, Russian Imperialism,
defeated in Asia, turned again west
ward to- Europe, proclaiming more
| loudly than ever it's Balkan rights,
bought with streams of blood, and
| prepared to acquire an outlet to
warm seas via Constantinople.
Thus, the scenery for the Euro
| pean war drama now was ready,
and even a superstitious belief in
| the durability of the Hapsburg and
Turkish empires could not prevent
| it. In the east, Russia had disap.
/ peared, China was sundered by in.
ternal strife, while England could
see that the destruction of the Ger
man fleet would enable her to trans
| fer her own ships from the North
sea to the Pacific ocean and thus
| Asia's fate would depend upon the
will of the tive allied island en-
pires-England and Japan.
Japan, on her part, recognized
| that without force Chinese antipathy
to everything Japanese could not be
| conquered. Nor could the. United
States be induced to accept a flood
| of yellow immigrants. So Japan has
chung to her naval alliance with
Great Britain. Many Japanese have
insisted that the more the United
States should cling to the Monroe
| doctrine, the more would japan in.
sist upon a parallel policy in Asia.
| But Japan's self-reliance is a blind
| policy for several reasons. First,
China's markets are essential to
American industry. Second, the
Panama canal, permitting maneuver-
ing between the Atlantic and Pacif-
ic oceans, protects the United States
from having to allow her white race
to become intermixed with yellow.
Third, the consciousness of the dan
ger of race mixture is SO strong in
1 Canada, Australia and New .zea.
land that no one of these doninions
! will bind themselves to an alliance
| which might increase the danger.
Europe Precipitates Conflict
| But Europe, which allowed the
Japanese to rise to the rank of a
triumphant power, also allowed
China to be weakened by lconces-
sions, allowed Russia to be pushed
aside in east Asia, then turn and
defeat Poland and Galicia, then turk
Bolshivik and be torn asunder at
| Brest-Litovsk. Europe has precipi.
tated the Pacific conflict.
But a peaceful solution is not i'm
| possible. More than. sweet and per-
ishable words and fragile compro-
misses can be expected at Washing
ton, and for this the world need
not thank Europeans. Since Rus
STA and Germany no longer are chief
factors in British reckonings, Brit
ish policy is no longer made solely
in London, but by the great domin-
| ions, and they were Enthusiastically
on the side of the United States
and against Japan at the recent i'm
perial conference in London, for
they could profitably exchange con-
cessions forced on China for honest
| United States friendship.
Thus, while Europe cannot right
fully claim the fruits of the confer
Fences, she will probably reap some
Of the choicest benefits. The gil
gantic problem of Russia, SO long
treated Alike a mere epidemic with
| quarantine and disinfection, must
at last be seriously tackled, because
it is one of the chief problems of
the world economic situation. This
discussion will be fruitful and pro-
ductiVe only when Asiatic markets
are insured to- American labor and
the problem of how to utilize the
treasures of thinly populated Aus
tralia tare amicably solved without
the mixing of races.
A new order in the Far East is
the price of American cooperation
in healing Europe's sufferings.
/ Today the American dollar buys
800, marks as against four marks
before the war. Yet in Dollarland
there are millions of unemployed
wilhelm MARYLAND labor is so scarce
| that volunteers are called for at
high pay since it is legally impossi-
BILE to abolish the 8-hour day. Neu-
trails are in much the same posi-
tion-dying\ like midas amid floods
Of gold.
In all Of this is there no spark of
economic reasoning? Will this con-
tinent of brilliant bankrupts, of
vanity and of misery, refuse to dis
arm and save the expense of armies
and dreadnaughts? If America Ind
England agree to defend France
against German aggression by boy
colt and war, will France limit her
army and abandon her contemplated
long occupation of German terrific
ry? Such fruits from the confer
ence would be hailed by all Europe
as q pledge of peace.