The Washington herald., 1921-10-30
Pacific POLICY
OF U.S.. VITAL,
SAYS SIMONDS
Attitude Of America Will
Have Grave Effect at
Arms Farley.
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territorial or political aggrandize-
ment. No, we want nothing that we
are not willing to allow everyone
else.
But the trouble Is that the ia
panese have got something we
haven't and to them our policy rests
upon the purpose to take from them
something for which they have
struggled, sacrificed, labored for
many. many years. Moreover,
fact too little grasped. equality OF
opportunity Is not equality. Given
our industrial superiority, II we
have an equal chance we have
handicap. Unless the other fellow
has some allowance, we are bound
to win.
seems Intolernble 10 Japan.
The trouble with the thing is that
no one Is undertaking to give due
consideration to the japanese point
of view. The Englishman said that
the German could not go to war be-
cause the mere idea of war was I'M
thinkable, given the utter reason
abieness of the British policy. The
American continues to iterate and
reiterate the declaration that we
want nothing for ourselves and are
prepared to allow the Japanese
every advantage we ask for our
selves plus some vague advantage
due to his proximity to China But
to the Japanese all this seems an
intolerable assumption Of right to
NEEDLE with his affairs.
Take the situation as II would be
/ II we refrained from asserting any
| policy with respect of Asia. II we
stayed In the American hemisphere,
| IL we restricted our Pacific inter-
ests to the things we possess, then
\ the Japanese supremacy In Asia
would be beyond all challenge.
No Other Nation to Hinder.
There is no other country which
could interfere. The British would
have to accept the position of the
junior partner, in the Far East, be-
cause England cannot night another
war for many years to come and a
war with Japan would mean revolt
| in India. Russia is paralyzed,
France powerless, Germany gone,
Holland does not count as q mill
tary or naval force, Italy has no
locus standi in the Pacific.
We and we alone have the power
| to challenge japanese, policy and
| purpose. This Is the old Anglo
| German situation over again. And
we do challenge just as the British
| do, with the same tones. the same
accents, the same supreme reliance
upon the reasonableness and right
ness of our own view. But every
japanese must perceive that the
| fact for him is that between his
country and that goal toward
which II has been struggling for
many painful years there now in
| tervenes only one. obstacle, the re-
| straIning arm of the United States.
We have crossed the Pacific and
taken on the attitude Of the traffic
policeman. Had we stayed away
all was finished, achieved, COM
pIeted.
Advantage I'm q. 9. Innuenee.
But instead of staying away we
came, We invited all the rest of the
world to attend a conference and
at that conference We propose to
| discuss what? The japanese Pa
cinc position. We have enormous
| influence upon the other powers;
they are our debtors; they would
be debtors for still greater
amounts; they fear our hostility
more than that of Japan; they have
far greater advantages to be served
by supporting us than Japan What
can Japan offer TO counterbalance
our resources? Nothing common
surate, obviously. 1t is as II Japan
called a conference in Tokyo to
discuss American policy in the Car
ribean and at the isthmus and In
vited all the great powers con-
cerned in the question Of the
Panama tolls to attend.
1t follows, then, that from the
outset the atmosphere of the Wash
ington conference must be tense.
We are dealing with the issues of
war and peace. A similar relation
between Britain and Germany de-
veloped into one of the most ter
rible conflicts in human history.
Open Door Already Closed.
II we are to avoid war with ia
pan we can only avoid it by a very
frank recognition that Japan has
vested rights or, IL one prefer, has
vested wrongs, which can only be
challenged at the cost of war. The
open door in the Far East Is an
anachronism. The door is shut. The
integrity of China is a phrase, the
fact Is that China has been parti-
! toned and cannot be restored COM
| pletely.
Something of this fact begins to
be felt in Washington already.
Through the press dispatches and
correspondents articles begins to
creep the suggestion that Japan is
nearer Asia than California and
something must be conceded as a
consequence. But what? Mancnu-
RIA and Mongolia We are to insist
upon the integrity of the eighteen
provinces, the return of Shantung,
but we are. at the same time, to
concede that Japan, having Man
churia and on the march for Mon
goliao shall be permitted to hold and
expand there in an area which will
be conceded tacitly as her sphere of
influence.
Compromise Of Principle.
Well, this is something but IL il
a long way from the principle which
we have advocated. My old friend
the prime minister of Australia in
commenting on a similar compro-
mise in the Paris conference days,
unmarked: TT Is about like reciting
the seventh commandment and then
adding the proviso that It shall not
be effective south of the equator.
In the days Of the Franco-German
clash over Morocco the Algerian
conference insisted upon the inde-
pendence of Morocco, but recognized
the special interests of France