The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-22
ENGLAND VERY
 MUCH UP TREE ! OVER TREATY
BY COL. WINFIELD JONES Especial Correspondence

Japanese treaty. This treaty soon ex- pires and the Japanese are making desperate efforts to have it renewed on the same terms and with the same provisions that it now contains.
 The Japanese are extraordinarily anxious to renew the treaty. Why? Because Japan believes that sooner or later she will have to fight the United States, and it would be great comfort to Tokyo to know that when hostilities start with tough old Uncle Sam, Great Britain or at least England, would be standing by, if not ready to take the part of Japan, at least as very uncomfortable neigh Dor to the United States which would have it's hands full for perhaps a year with the warlike Japs. The canny Mongals no doubt figure they would be able under such circum- stances, even without the material assistance of London, and even with out the moral support of the Eng fish, to make considerable of a dent in the United States before this re- public could get really under way to wipe the yellow men off the Pacific
 But the hitch with the British is caused, not in London but in the great dependencies of the British do the British to take the side of the Japanese in war with the United States. This reluctance is not based on the good neighborly feeling existing between Canada and the United States, but the Canadian hostility to the Japanese. It is rooted more deep- ly, and the crux of it is that the Canadians we'll know if England at- tempted to attack the United States because the British were treaty allies of the yellow kindom, it would not be many moons before the United States would; invade Canada and under such circum- stances Canada would be headed di- rect for annexation to this country. The Canadians in such circumstances probably would immediately leave the British Empire, and it is not un- likely that Canadian regiments would soon be serving in American armies. Downing street knows this very we'll and if for no other reason would be deterred from fighting on the side of Japan.
 While the Canadians are hostile to the Japanese when we get into the Pacific we find another British colony-Australia- even more impelling motives to refuse to al. low England into any war on the United States as an ally of Japan. The Australians hate and dislike the Japanese even more than the Cali fornians, and will not allow single Jap to live in their country. The Australian statesmen have more than once openly stated in London | speeches that should England ever be so insane as to fight the United | States as an ally of Japan, Aus tralia would be found lined up with the United States and outside of l the British Empire. The British know that, too.
 For these two main reasons, and they are impelling reasons, and not for any maudlin hands across the sea" snuffling, or the fiction that blood is thicker than water" Great Britain, even if she does renew the treaty, will take par ticular pains to have nothing in it i that will bind London to support Tokyo against the United States in event of an American-Japanese struggle.
 That this war is coming is believed by practically every observer of world events in Washington. Two powerful nations cannot control the Pacific, the highway and the gate way to the immense trade of the Orient, which trade means really the trade of the world. Whoever CO., trols the trade of the world con- trols the world and the seven seas. Therefore the conflict is certain-if | not in this generation then in the next. But all the signs and DOT tents point to the fight for mastery | of the Pacific in the next ten years, | or even sooner.
 Senator Borah, who sees clearer than most senators, knows this Is | coming. That is one reason, though l the Idaho senator will not say so, for his persistent agitation, which has