The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-11-11
,JiFAN FAY0RS
DISARMAMENT
YrSsrount Kano Says That
His Country Wants To
Discard Guns

scsrasESai in japan than in any other
.-zsHrnsry, according to viscount KAN.
-vsuc represents that nation on the
,gE.susyuA of Nations Council.
IN an interview granted Interna-
at-c7nI News service Niscount kano
s~osss .rf the feelings, hopes and ap-
~ ,esnsions OF his people as follows;
~.yspan is often blamed as being a
.-ssEFzristic and Jiugoist country. But
eays=rsbodv who is familiar with her
-a5-zrr-v y nows that she has been un-
-.Isr I'm menace of foreign invasion
ssor su,znturies The invasion by the
-Nscuxuls was the first. Then, in the
s.yL6tacnth and nineteenth centuries,
lysg.sH n was obliged to close her coun-
try far fear of conquest by European
'--rzy1time nations. The over of Brit
I'M ,srf1ended thru India and Singa-
.,auzVs1o Hong Kong. The French came
vs. MIR ms Cochin, China. The Dutch
MI czne Portuguese took the South
9yyz islands. Russia was stretching
fsnt-- sEr-ny thru Siberia to Manchuri%
z1n4n Jnpan saw that neighboring
t-ug.lserjes were passing one by one to
s5vxsIgn domination it was inevitable
,.z?,szs she should feel apprehensive and
-gE.e pls,1Ctic feelings of The People
,ssSg77e thoroughly aroused.
9Iming was Necessary.
The rsslization of her peril pro-
fszauIsy Stirred her imagination, and
.sa,x resolved upon taking drastic
q sllySs 'sr.r her self-preservaticn. Hence
WEI, reconstruction from feudalism to
-rYasFBnaIism. Such a step was deem
~ " all the far-seeing opulation in
her zdinst to be her only salvation.
--TEsz. reconstruction of our army
-.zrs navy inevitably followed. But it
s1-gaz only during the fifteen years that
sr.s.S aszsal the Russian war that the
.-zzsiSSJzristir party grasped political
-7e7s5zEvx and propagated among the
81 als 1he necessity OF territorial ex-
,--saxsN7n, IN Mancnuria and Siberia.
-.FaIranately for Japan the fail
-axt .; Ihe Prussian militarism in the
.z17sssg war was a striking lesson, and
NJ The same time my people found
s-ksss 's3nrilen OF expense for the army
.~SEsa mpEy 10 be intolerable.
'E5Isar mament is more urgently
--StErumed in Japan than in any 9TH
IA s.5nnIry She is poor in natural re-
-ss-rroey. Her transport is not yet Ell
.sE.Jgcszat, and houses are scarce. These
'1zS<Ss have had great effect on her
s-snsJODal feelings, her imperilistic
za1nss have in consequence been great
II modified.
Populacc Peaceful.
Let me give you three pictures o.
-E.snaU AZ The present time;
-FYrss-Several months in advance
tsf fne proposal by the United States
szsspr1lment to hold the conference in
7gxasSJDgton. Mr.. Ozaki, ex-minister
,oF fxsSice. made a disarmament tour
,snmunt Japan and took postcard
wa Ninety per cent of the popula-
tlsa declared itself in favor of ':is-
isrz2zn1ent.
ne second picture is one that VIII
-,rsvsaI 10 all American and British
> azaShers:
TN Japan we have |conscrirtion
u7FR Ut the age of twenty esery boy
rsV,st present himself for medical In
-.,tssseSSoD with view to undergoing
,-s-s ss11, OF naval training. ETcry one
- e%eir mothers worships al the
,.s11rSng,. praying that her son may De
,-xeSssst medically unfit TO join the
army
Third picture: Wien the anti
>s,serIcan feeling was very st"ohg the
s.v.,-,sfa1is of all tie universities ana
.s,.zNsxes in Toxic decided at CON
TssSsnese that th0y would not iiehl
.stzr5nsS America or any other nation
ss,s,ranse war helped the capitalist ana
..P,,. manufactures alone, and all the
r--e.sy vi the community suffered
III might well be asked shy ia
~g.x I'D spending so per cent OF hei
,eey-anae on the army and navy It IL
Nss=xnsa Japan is not as yet thorough
- Democratic and never. will be un
~ zoe political franchise is extend
~ 10 women.
Economic needs caused Amerlci
-t-s caD disarmament conference a
" a shIngton to solve the Pacific prop
Tgsa. une which should be discussed
gsy The nations 'of the whole world
with lhe working classes represent
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