New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1921-04-11
dual DIPLOMACY
MENACE TO JAPAN
Meddlns by Militarists Causes
Misconceptions, SOyeshima Sage

Toxic, April 1.-THE alleged med
ding OF japanese militia rists in di-
plomacy is vigorously attacked by
County NJ. Soyeshima, prominent
member of the House of Peers in the
course or contribution 10 the Japan
csc Diplomatic Review" which is
attracting considerable attention.
He affirmed that the cause of for
eign misconceptions of Japan lies
chiefly in the so-called dual diplom-
acy which was the worst deterrent to
Anglo-Japanesc, Japanese America
and Chino-Japanese friendship. In
the counts opinion. 'Japan's diplom-
acy has, even since the outbreak of
the late great war, been a continuous
series OF failures" He laments that
there are no longer. or At least not
now In view, men like the late Prince
katsura and the late Marquis ko-
mura. IL was those two great states
men who. nearly twenty years ago,
committed the country To the Anglo
Japanese alliance. over the heads Of
some OF the elder statesmen and
others who were opposed to the idea
Mt tho time.
When the late war broke out the
two statesmen had been gone for
some time and what followed was
most disconcerting, in the view OF
Count Soyeshima. Had they been
alive and in power. they would have
seen to Il that the country was solid
IL united against Germany before they
declared war on her. AS II was, the
government could not prevent news
papers and magazines, scholars and
military reservists, from talking and
writing as IL Japan were the friend of
Germany and an enemy of the Allies.
Unfortunately. those in power sue
cessively since those days have gone
on laundering. knowing no better than
to fish for cheap popularity.
The notorious Twenty-one Demands
presented to China in January, 1915,
had to be reduced to mere common
place before they were finally accept
cd by her and that by force of an ul-
timatum.
Count Soyeshima thought the mill
tarists' meddIing in diplomacy and
the German and Chinese propaganda
were chiefly responsible for what he
called 1.-The present setback in Japan
ese-American friendship" though he
believed that America has to bear
moro than half the blame" He ex-
planned his last remark in this man
ner:
THE Anglo Saxons are lovable
race of people. but speaking candidly.
they are a people of excessive pride.
this being especially the case with
Americans who may be said to have
weakness of being self-centered and
self-willed. The forcing of Japan to
open her doors. the annexation. OF
Hawaii. the war with Spain. the anti
Japanese campaign I'm California. the
lynching OF negroes, the .audacious
movement in support of Irish indie
pendence--all come from self~cen-
tralIzation. This trait of the Ameri-
cans accounts, in no small measure for
the present cooling of friendship be-
tween Japan and America" .
ITO do them justice. however.
Americans are unsophisticated, sin
cere and stronR-willed and where
they are persuaded to trust Japan and
England IL will not be so very diff
cult q task for the three powers TO
work in concert and maintain the
peace of the world. To come to
real good understanding with Ameri-
en-. however, Japan must have right
grasp OF Americas China policy.
The United States, the Count be-
iieved, was conquering CHlnd ny euu.
cation Twenty years hence, he said.
all the Important government posti
In China will be occupied by Chinese
OF American education. Japan should
prepare herself for the peaceful con-
quest OF China by America. and to
that end Japan's nilitarist policy
must be discarded and her entire at
titude towards China recasted. He
added: sour policy toward China has
been one OF outrageous recklessness.
The imperial foreign minister. who
caused the FL demands to be pre-
scented 10 China is said to have told
foreigner ut the time that those were
not, the demands OF the ministry but
OF the military cabsl. A government
that must bow TO the militarists can
never be trusted by the nation"
To him the militarists were the
"canker worm OF Japan. He con-
tinued.
"Nincty-nine per cent. of the Jap
nnesc people are opposed to agrees
sivism. They want no more war. The
money Japan spends on her navy is
the premium she pays for national
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