Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-09
Naval Cut Should
Be Simple Matter
Saws jap Ambassador

DAYS Jap A1llUdSSduOI
Cambridge, Mass, Nov. S--What-
ever the problems of the armament
conference, an agreement for llmlta-
ton Of naval armament ought to be
q Comparatively simple matter"
says Ambassador Shidehara of Jap
an, one of that country's delegates.
writing in the current issue Of the
Harvard Crimson.
The ambassador bases his state
ment on the conclusion that the war
left only three great naval powers
each on q different continent and
with none OF tho real interests of
enc conflicting vitality with the 9TH
ers."
=. At the same time the ambassador
fakes opportunity to outline Japan's
case at the arms conference, her re-
1ation to China and the far eastern
Htuatlon, as we'll as her place in the
world.
- He writes:
.''The japanese Delegation comes to
the Washington Conference confident
that the nations assembled there will
achieve a substantial measure of sue
cess and that valuable understand
ings will result enabling the several
principal nations to live in future
with less suspicion and distrust, and
consequent armament. This is the
least that can be expected. But we
japanese are hoping that, as Prosi-
dent Harding said at Yorktown on
October 10, The time has come when
there must be recognition of essen
tial cooperation among nations, de-
voted, each of them, in it's own pc
culiar national way, to the common
good, the progress, the advancement
Of all humankind
I'VE japanese are primarily con-
cerned. as America is. with n limita-
ton of naval armament. and it is on
this matter that | speak with conf
dcnce. What agreements can he
reached for the limitation of land
forces is more difficult for me to es-
innate. But as far as the seas are
concerned an agreement ought to be
y comparatively simple matter for
- The obvious reason that there are but
three great naval Powers left in the
world and that each of them belongs
to Il different continent separated
from the others by great ocean,
and with none of the real interests of
one conflicting vitality with the 9TH
crs. For these reasons it seems to
me that only n most arbitrary atti-
tude on tho part OF one or another
country can defeat the main purpose
of the Conference, and mono will be
arbitrary, for the peoples as we'll as
the governments of all three most
earnestly desire agreement.
There is an unofficial I might
say. public. American point Of view
that any agreement must be con-
tingent upon settlement Of Far
Eastern problems. and to some Amer
leans those problems seem greatly
involved and fraucht with POSSIBLE
tiles of grave danger. 1t is hardly
within my province as the represent =
atve of another government to
point out to any Americans how
needless is this alarm, but as your
President has invited us No an open
ami frank discussion. and as the
crimson" has left me free to say
what | Will. | am sure it will not be
taken amiss if I point out the falla-
cy of such contentious as have been
launched in the United States by the
szrsloQhters and by the comparatively
few actual enemies Of an under
~aet ndng.
"lnteliigent and VOL Informed
naval mon in every country know
that. the Great War left the United
States proper absolutely massailablc.
No Power in the world is in a posi-
ton to attack your country without
bringing grave distress upon itself.
For more than one hundred Years
YOU have lived without hostile for
eign soldier within your borders. and
today no nation in Europe would dare
attack you even If any had the viii,
to do so. Yet Europe is only 5000
miles away while Japan Is twice as
far.
But the baiters of Japan are not
-.tontent with that argument. They
declare that Japan could take the
Philippine Islands In the same cat
- egory they could include Hongkons
i" and the extensive British possessions
An East Asia, and also French Indo-
S'~China and other European possess
'sions in the Pacific. But. as a matter
r of fact, these various eastern pos
= sessions of Western nations could he
by Japan far greater
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