Evening star., 1921-12-04
YOkata Defines
True View of
Disarnling.
ALSO INCLUDED
Points Out Japan's
Inferiority in
Building Ships.
By the Associated Press.


Making what was considered a di-
rect allusion to the naval ratio ques-
tion, Sennosuke Yokata, president of
the legislative bureau Of the Jap
anese cabinet. in an address here yes
terday. declared the true and impair
tial spirit of disarmament should
take into consideration not only the
existing strengths of navies but also
the potential powers of each country.
Mr.. Yokata expressed the opinion
that II the present conference neg
lected the importance Of potential
power. by which he meant general
industrial capacity in supplying war
material in time of emergency. it
might meet with the disapproval if
not the derision of posterity.
May Join Cabinet.
The comparative inferiority of
Japan in ability to replace her war
ships in time of emergency was
touched upon last week by Vice Ad-
miral Banji kato. chief naval ad-
wiser to the Japanese delegation,
when in an interview he outlined the
Japanese reasons for desiring a 20
per cent ratio of capital ships as
against the so per cent set down in
the American proposals
Mr.. Vokata, who was regarded as
the right hand man of Premier Hara,
who was recently assassinated. is re-
turning soon to Japan and his ad-
dress yesterday was made at a fare
well luncheon which he gave in honor
of about sixty Americans,and japanese.
He is one of the leaders of the
sieykai, or government party and it is
reported in Washington that he may
become a member OF the new Taka-
hashi cabinet on his return to Toxic.
1t is believed, also that on his return
he will proceed to clarity govern
mental and public opinion concerning
the status and aspirations of the
Washington conference.
Favor Defensive Forces.
In his address yesterday Mr.
Yokata made the point that military
preparations of an independent state
should consist not only of an efficient
army and navy with munitions, forti-
fications. ETC.. but that 1t must have
the backing of potential power and
great industrial organization. He
referred to the effective manner in
which the draft was carried out in the
United States during the war and the
spirit of unity and national Cooper
alton shown in America
After dwelling upon the Importance
of potential capacity as a fair meas
urement of real disarmament, Mr.. Yo-
kata said there were other means Of
establishing lasting peace besides
limiting armaments and that the
American people alone could take the
lead in new path to the eternal well
tare OF mankind. He believed that
every living creature has a right to
life and happiness and that, therefore,
there was no room for such a thing
as racial discrimination among the
members Of the human family. He
asserted that no nation could be COM
pared with the United States with its
abundance of natural resources.
Paints q Sad Picture.
Mr.. Yokata painted a picture of the
world as full of disorder and confu-
sion almost too great for human COM
prehension.
Russia is in state of chaos and
dark clouds hover over the Asiatic
continent He added, "Japan's
wounds from the war were not severe,
but the limited area of her land and
the lack of necessaries for her ever
increasing population give rise to urg.
ent problems"
He then contrasted the situation of
Japan with that of the United States,
which, he said, had an abundant
wealth of natural resources.
Alluding to the big war debt which
European countries owe the United
States, he said:
American strength seems more
than enough to relieve the world
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