Evening star., 1921-11-30
SEIZURE OF KOREA
HELD WAR CAUSE
DR.. Jaisohn Sees Far East
Conflict Possible if Japan's
Action Is Ignored.

Action Is Ignored.
The possibilities OF war in the far
east will not be lcssened by the limt-
tation of navics as long as the Jap
anese seizure of Korea is ignored h,-
the nations of the world. according To
DR.. Philip Jaisohn. vice chairman uF
the Korean commission to the arms
conference. speaking yesterday at th.
City Club luncheon forum.
DIR. Jaisohn, who announced him
self AS an American citizen and a
former member of the staff of the
United states surgeon general. as
well as Korean by birth, and high
official of the provisional Korean re-
public, spoke bluntly of "Japanes.
aggression asserting. to applauS.
that he was no diplomat" and was
speaking in his American capacits.
Korean republic and chairman of the
h"Tean republic mad chairman of tn.
commission, was present in the audi
ehcf as was also the Hon. kiyusE
hanai. councillor of the railway Bu-
reau Of the Japanese delegation to
the conference.
Wants Hearing at Conference.
w ar mere III America, Dr. ia -
SOM SAID. simply in the hope of put
tihe our case before the conference
PRESIDENT Harding has said thai in
terhatlonaI agreements are worthless
Shiess the nations making them can
De trusted to keep them. We agrc..
ANA we want to offer in evidence
simply that Korea is TODAY "A proyjrc.
OF Japan only because japan bro,r
her agreement OF alliance with Korea
ana possibly. too. because other ma
tions-including the Emitted States
which brought Korea out of her his
torlc non-intercourse policy. have faIt-
ed 10 i've up to their treaty agree
ments to help protect Korea from up-
preston.
There is much misunderstanding o;
horea's case. l have read in news
papers and magazines that Japan con
quered Korea. If conquest means the
result Of a war between two opposing
nations, that is not true. Japan seized
Korea by becoming her ally under
treaty promising 10 protect Korea :
territorial and political integrity.
Recall this bit of history: japan
was opened up about thirty years be
Tore Korea: she got western ideas
built an army and navy. and then. like
any young boy. wanted to try them
out. She picked quarrel with China
the least organized Asian nation: de
feated her: exacted as booty severa
islands. large indemnity and thalt
tried to get piece of the ChineS-
mainland, But Germany. Russia and
France forced her to let go the last
grab.
Japan looked at the combined fleet
OF these three nations and then retired
with polite bows-Japan is good at
that-asserting that she had had no
such intentions.
Says Japan Was ResentfuI
Resentment was behind that polite
ness and in 1904 Japan tackled Russia
me Least powerful of her three opponents
But japan couldn't win without a base
on the mainland. Pleading that il was
only TO protect Korea from Russia. sh,-
persuaded Korea to make a treaty OF
alliance. promising 10 withdraw as soon
as the war ended. And then with her
army in Korea on the same basis as ~ ::
American doughboys were in France
she disarmed the small Korean armN ,
seized the railways. posts and public
utliltles-anneXed her own ally and made
her province.
Korea reminded America of her
treaty. the very first article OF which
SAID if third party ever oppressed
horea america was to use her good
offices to adjust the matter But Their
was something the matter with Amcri-
ca ears then-she didn't hear us Jana n
had beaten first China and then Rus
sla and was staggering about the
orient If it was cold feet. gentlemen.
you have the consolation that a dozen
other great nations which had treaties
with Korea of the same kind also looked
the other way.
Points Out .Results."
What was the result? Before this
American business was supreme n,
Korea, for America looked after
Korea 8 interests abroad and Korea
looked after American interests al
nome Americans got all the trad.
then: Americans built tn. first rail
road, opened the first mines: a Wash
ington man built the first electric
light plant and another Washing
tonian organized the Korean police
Korea had a treaty of protectiun
with America, otherwise she would
never have opened her gates.
But today Japan has driven out all
foreign interests. especially the
Americans, until now the only Amer
can business there is one struggline
mining concern and a fellow dealing
in secondhand Fords. Gradually. but
ineXorably, Japan has crushed this
ancient nation-this independent peo-
pie with a national existence of 1000
years and recorded civilization and
culture of twenty-seven centuries
this people. which invented the first
ironclad war vessel 800 years before
the Merrimac and Monitor, and which
used movable type hundreds of years
before Gutenberg.
To-day. country as big as New
York and Pennsylvania. with popu-
lation of 10000. 900. is being reduce d
to political and economic serfdum.
No Korean can get an educatIDn
above the grammar grades: those
who get out and learn more have I"
be smuggled out: while 100000 have
fed to Siberia and Mongolia.
Korea stands today living mon
ument to human perfidy. treachery
contracts and broken treaties. II
this conference against war lets this
monument stand wars Will continue.
for treaties will be broken again as
long as broken treaties of the past
are ignored and the nation which
breaks them is permitted to hold
the spoils. If the nations in this
of war they must stand for the same
thing in international affairs as you
men stand for in businesS-integrliE
of contracts made and pledges given
In the discussion which followed
the address one of the American
newspaper men covering the arms
conference raised the point that the
conference to date had done nothing
to indicate il was seeking to prevent
war. but was addressing itself solely
| to the problem Of cutting the expense
of war establishments.
Claude y. Bennett. who presided at
the meeting. emphasized in his intro
duction that the club took no posi-
tion on the views presented by its
speakers. seeking simply TO act as
an omen forum. where all sides OF
public problems could he presented.
Dr. Jaisohn was applauded enthuSi-
astically and given a vote of thanks
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