The Washington herald., 1921-10-30

! tegrity of China really asserted II
we deny the Japanese right to take
an arm but benevolently concede
that proximity to q leg automati-
cally bestows surgical privileges?
The real trouble lies in the fact
that there are no halfway stations
at which nations are willing per-
manently to halt, when they have
set out on the boulevard of ma
tional expansion.
Promised to Quit Egypt
More than q generation ago Brit
ain landed In Egypt, with the
promise to retire whenever condi-
tions were warranted. but today
the flag which was put ashore at
Alexandria has passed beyond the
theadwaters of the Nile. The spe-
cfal privileges which on account of
geographical contiguity were con-
coded to France on one side of
Morocco have expanded until a
French marshal rules at Rabat and
Morocco, to use an old term once
significant now almost obsolete has
| submitted to complete ''Tunisifica-
| ton"
The EngIishman asked the Ger
man to accept the reasonable Brit
ish view of the future of Germany
beyond the narrow confines Of Eu-
| rope and at the same time to agree
to a naval holiday, but the adjust
ment was had not at the Hague
but at the armistice and the final
settlement, when the German high
seas fleet, sunk by its own COM
mander. disappeared under the
waters of a Scotch bay.
Assert Right to Interfere.
We are asking the Japanese to
accept our reasonable view Of an
Asiatic, a Far Eastern situation, we
| offer Manchuria as the Briton Of
fered the Bagdad Railway, which Is
| something, but we deny China
kproper. as the Briton denied Moroc-
60. Above all we are asserting the
right to interfere to restrict and
direct Japanese expansion; we are
asserting right to protect China
as Britain asserted the right to
guarantee the integrity Of France,
of Belgium, of Holland. It Is the
claim to this alleged right which
brings us into collision with Japan
and the collision will not be pre-
vented, however II may be post
poned, by an agreement that Japan
shall expand west instead of south
beyond rather than within the
great wall.
VIII Be First Step to War.
Actually, when the German EN-
peror announced that the future of
his country lay on the blue water
the collision between Britain and
Germany became inevitable unless
| one of the two great powers aban-
doned its national conceptions. On
| the day when, we finally assert a
right and a purpose to restrict Jap
anese aspirations in Asia, however
immoral these purposes may seem
or even may actually be, we shall
have taken the first long step to-
ward war and all, limitation Of
ornaments will henceforth be as
utterly useless AS the British en-
deavors to obtain naval holidays
and refusal to risk exciting Ger
man resentment by providing ade-
quate land forces proved only a
decade ago.
The price of peace between
Japan and the United States is not
mutual Limitation OF armament, 1t
is the reconciliation by the United
States of a policy in the Pacific
which at any point seeks to re-
strict japanese purposes as to
China, Manchuria or Siberia or the
voluntary abandonment by Japan
of that conception OF the future of
the nation which has dominated
Japanese policy and patriotism for
many. many years.
Alliance Only Alternative.
The alternative is an alliance
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