The Washington times., 1921-11-16
JAP Menace IS
REAL PROBLEM
F0RARMS meet

Ex-EnVOy N0IdIu ASooIt9 Oo"-
ger to U. s. Lies Solely
In Far East.
BY JAMES w. GERARD.
many and . Recox nized Authority on
Diplomatic Questions.
Copyright, 1871. BY the International
News service.)
Americas greatest interest in the in
ternational conference OF armamo mt
reduction and Pacific questions lies in
settlement of the problems of the
Far East.
From this quarter threatens our
greatest danger-there lies our great.
est hope Of future peace.
Three Cardinal Points Cited.
There are three cardinal points TO
keep in mind in our relations with
Japan:
First-A great nations warlike ma.
tion--a nation that, in the few years
since 1853, has made itself one of the
great powers-a nation whose popula-
ton presses on the means of subsis.
tence-must be permitted to expand.
Second-The treatment accorded the
Japanese In this country touches
above all else their personal honor.
Some way must be found by which tine
national (raciaD equality which they
feel is their right is preserved to them,
but subject to the third and greatest
cardinal point from our standpoint.
which is:
Third-The Japanese must recog-
nize that we cannot give to them or to
people Of any other race which does
not assimilate in our melting pot, the
unlimited right peacefully to pene-
trate and gradually possess any part
of our country. Therein lies danger.
Precedents Not Wanting.
Precedents are not wanting. Rou.
manians penetrated Hungary in such
numbers that at last Roumania claim
ed and received part or Hungary. On
this point our people In the West are
determined, fixed and stesdfast.
Some of the lessons which Japan
has been taught by the Western powers
must be disavowed. In this connec-
ton 1t Is necessary to go into BRIEF
historical review of the relations be-
tween the West and the East. how
they have expanded and the results
that have accrued from them.
When Balboa. in 1913. waded into
the Pacific and took possession OF the
new ocean in the name Of the King
of Spain, he brought to Europe and
America new opportunities for the
conquests Of trade and war, but he
opened as we'll sea of troubles and
problems.
Orientals Slept On-Then.
bringing those shores of the wide
Pacific on the East lie the great prob
lens Of China and Japan. and white
these old empires slept their hermit
sleep the rowing Anglo saxon crept
in and peopled the continent of Aus
tralia and fertile New Zealand and
lands of the South seas.
Gold discovered in California
brought the Anglo-Saxons to the
Pacific coast of the United States and
a slower settlement brought them to
the Western coast of Canada.
And still the hermit empires slept
their ages-long sleep-both Mongo-
liam, both civilizations, but differing
in their outlook on life.
China Despises Militarism.
CHINA ID NUot aggregation Vi
peoples devoted to work, to business,
as we understand the word "a ooun-
try where to engage In business sue
cessfully brought. as with us, is
honor, not disgrace. A country
where an ancient philosophy had
taught even the mass OF people to
despise war.
Zimmerman, once foreign min
lister of Germany, told me that when
he was a consul in China he was
presented to powerful mandarin,
a fine looking man Of soldierly bear
ing. Zimmerman wishing to flatter
the mandarin said to the interpreter:
Tell him what a fine looking man
he is. Tell him he looks like a SOL
der The interpreter said: II can
not tell him that-it would be an in
sult-soldiers are looked down upon. /"
Japan Much Like Old Russia.
Japan, on the other hand, with its
fighting aristocracy. the fine sense
of personal honor Of It's people, its
military ambitions, is somewhat like
the Prussia of before 1914.
To understand the problems Of the
Far East we must first of all grasp
this essential difference between
China and Japan.
In bodily construction there is not
much difference between indi-
viduals OF the two peoples, but the
great Japanese general who COM
mitted suicide on the day Of his
Emperor's funeral in order thereby
to manifest his admiration for his
dead chief, cannot be said to have
looked at life from the same view
point as an Anglo-Saxon or Chinese.
Non.Preparedness Penalized China.
China suffered the penalty Of the
non prepared and Of the pacifist. Her
ports were seized, her country divided
into spheres Of influence; her people
forced by war to poison themselves
with opium for the benefit Of greedy
The battle flags Of all the
powerful nations, represented at this
conference, including our own, have
waved before the gates Of her capital
and her palaces have been looted by
the soldiers Of civilized Europe.
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