New-York tribune., 1921-11-06
opounds Three Points for the Washington Conference
American Policy Will Demand
Political Surrender by Japan
of "Open Door, Recognition of
Integrity of China and Destruction of Anglo
Japanese Treaty Are Basic Program

support Of all other nations and avert a
possible world calamity which might
follow If these policies should continue
to be disregarded."
| venture upon second quotation
from the same source, because no.
where else have I found the official
view stated with such clarity and ac-
curacy:
Then England made an alliance with
Japan; an alliance which has hung like
the sword of Damocles over the Far
East and which has brought about a
situation that grows more and more
serious when contemplated by the civil
lied world. Japan has asserted and
enforced demands in China which would
not have been attempted but for that
alliance and the knowledge that she had
behind her the greatest naval power in
the world Other nations would not
have permitted these encroachments by
Japan save for the fact that the alliance
with Great Britain made interference
mpracticable. Under this alliance ia
pan has gone forward ruthlessly to Sc
cure dominion over the Far East. She
has absorbed Corea, blotting out ma
tion by conquering and annexing it,
She has made China semi-vassal
state. She has acquired Shantung and
is reaching for more. All because she
has the backing or passive acquiescencc
Of Great Britain
Support of Great Britain
Expected by United States
Now, assuming that these statements
accurately present the view of the Ad-
ministration and the conception Of Mr..
Hughes, what do they mean in fact?
Obviously that the United States is un-
dertaking to check Japanese aspiration
in the Far East, regarding that aspira-
tion as direct menace to its material
interests and an eventual threat to it's
safety. To this end the United States
has invited the great powers of Europe
to conference. and not only does it ex
pect their support, but it expects that
one, namely, Great Britain, will retrace
certain of it's steps.
But there is an obvious necessity to
consider the situation as an interna-
tional situation. Let US assume for a
moment that Mr.. Hughes, perhaps the
greatest advocate of his time in such
a case, can present the argument
al so%
ment of the japanese purposes and
methods with all that supreme skill
which marked his prosecution of the
insurance corporations half genera
ton ago. Let us assume that in law
and in justice there is no Japanese an
swer left, what does this mean?
Nothing, unless the United States is
prepared to take up arms to enforce
the two points which it elects to cham
pion-namely, the open door and the
integrity of China. We are undertak-
ing to turn Japan out Of China and to
compel her to recognize iii practice as
in principle the integrity of China and
of Siberia. She has in practice denied
both; her whole policy fer nearly two
decades has been based upon the avoid
ance, the open or the concealed evasion
of these two points" What if she
persists?
Of course, the answer is obvious. All
discussion of disarmament becomes
futile. 1t will not be a question of
limitation but of expansion of arma-
ment for us as for her. That is why
the limitation of armament is in real
ity a minor detail, or rather a remote
contingency, and the Far Eastern ques-
tion is the real problem of the Wash
ington conference, SO recognized at