Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-14

~ ahdt countfyS delegates, writing
81 Crimson.
The ambassador bases his state!
n nlent on the conclusion that the war
a3le1t only three great naval powers
each on a different continent and with
none OF the real interests of one con-
lucting vitality with the Others"
AL the same time the ambassadors
taxes opportunity to outline %Japan's
4 case at the, arms conference, her rel
l'tlon to China and the far eastern
& situation, as well as her place III the
world.
He writes:
inc Japanese delegation comes to
I Inc Washington conference confident
that the nations assembled there Wilt
achlcrc u substantial measure OF suc-
cess and that valuable underestimate
lhss VIII result, enabling the several
principal nations to live i'll future
with less suspicion and ulstrust, and
!. consequent armament. This Is the
lelst that can be expected. But we
Japanese are hoping that, as Presi-
gent Harding said at Yorktown on
i October ~, "theetimc has come, when
there must be recognition Of essential
cooperation among nations, devoted,
each of them. in it's peculiar national
I way, to the common good. the prog
ress. the advancement CT all human,
kind.
+, Naval Armament Cut Vital.
We Japanese are primarily con-
cerncd, as America is, with q linllta-
ton of naval armament, II it is on
/ this matter that l speak with conf
dencc. What agreements can be
reached for the limitation OF and
forces is more difficult for me to- cs-
j innate. But as far as the seas are
concerned an agreement ought TO be
a comparatively simple matter for the
/ obvious reason that there are but
three great naval powers loft in the
/ world and that each of them belongs
i to a different continent separated
/. from the others by a great ocean, and
with none of the real interests or
n conflicting vitality with the others.
For these reasons it seems to me that
only a most arbitrary attitude Oh the
part of one or another country can
defeat the main purpose of the Con-
ference, and nom will be arbitrary,
for the peoples as we'll as the govern
ments Of all three most earnestly de-
sire agreement.
There is an unofficial, I might say,
public, American point of view thai
any agreement must be contingent
upon Il settlement Of Far Eastern
problems. and to some Americans
those problems seem greatly involved
and fraught with possibilities OF grave
danger. 1t is hardly within my pro-
vince as the representative of an
other government to point out to any
Americans how needless is this alarm,
but as your, president has invited us
to an open and frank discussion, and
as the Crimson" has left me free to
say what l will. | am sure it will not
be taken ainiss if / point outrthe fall
= lacy of such contentious as have been
launched i'll the United States by the
Sdoubters n by the comparatively
few actual enemies of an understand
ing. .s
"InteYgent and. we'll informed naval
men in every country know tina me
j proper absolutely. unassailable. No
: power in the Swprld y in a position
to attack %yourGs~coHnt without
bringing distress apo itself,
For more thanSsone hundred years
You have lived without a hostile ior-
today no nation in Europe would dare
attack you even IT any had tho will
to do So. Yet Europe is only 5000
j. miles away, while Japan Is twice as
far. X
Argument Not Sufficient.
But the baiters ;or Japan are not
content with that argument. They
declare that Japan could a X the
Philippine Islands. In the same cate
CORY they would include Hongkong
and Tho erecntiye. British possessions
IN MAST Asia, and also French Indo-
c.hina and other European possess
s;ons in the Pacific But. as a matter
~ tart these ario,,s Eastern posses
/. sions ~ western nations could be
# ered Nv lana a far greater
noansc 90 tn hcr than1she is TO them.
,Ianan however is confident that no
western nation has any designs upon
he. Observation-Disclosures
.rrhase facts though. do not end
+ho arpument against japan. Her
narsistent detractors. in their process
ne .ni,inr M the aponv, inform their
be,rars md readers Of the plan>of a
y n,i1it, list Tanan ia take control of
.rhina and organize THAT country's
VI miIiions into a yellow peril. The
u nhrasa was first Ia1,nched by the Kali
Gov and was sub
senuentlv n the United states by his
M avants IN an effort 10 distract Ameri-
III nan attention from The war in Europe.
~ No one realized moro clearly than the
8S Iananese them]solvesSthat such a pro-
81 loot is utterly unattaanable.
~ the fiTst mace. Nc Japanese
# .ho,,ld come in CONFLICT with the sew
W. 80 80 Turnnean nations lat hold es-
I'D "a biished positions In China. We
MI should then be required Ito dominate.
81 control, and ultimately organize the
M Chinese. This void mean. achieve
Sa mcnt. such as no country has vet
S hoen or will ever be able to accom-
a Wish Human nature isn't that way;
% : subject race il generally a greater
burden than help, in time Of war: and
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