The Washington herald., 1921-11-06
Grave Complications May
Follow Pressure on Japan
America Seeks the Open Door, Chinese Intes-
rity and Destruction of the Anglo
Nipponese Alliance.
By FRANK H. s1MoNps.

force the two points which IL elects
to champion, namely. the open door
ana the Integrity Of China We are
Undertaking 20 turn Japan out OF
China and TO compel her to rscog-
nize In practice al in principle the
integrity OF China and of Siberia.
She has In practice denied both. her
whole policy for nearly two decades
has been based upon the avoid
ance, the open or the concealed eva
sion Of these two points What
IL she persists7
Arms Reduction n Detnn.
OF course the answer is obvious.
All discussion Of disarmament be-
comes futile. II will not be q cues
ton Of Limitation but of expansion
Of armament for us as for her. That
10 why the Limitation of armaments
Is In reality a minor detail, or
rather q remote contingency and the
Far Eastern question is the real
problem Of the Washington confer
ence, 30 recognized at Washington
but ~ yet little appreciated in the
nation at large.
At the outset Of the conference
would have my readers perceive
that the United States is undertsk-
Ing the purposes and policies Of a
great and proud nation. It Is un-
dertaking 20 forbid China TO Japan,
SO far as japan has looked upon il
as an exclusive field for economic
and political exploitation. Mr..
Hughes policy is the assertion OF
the right TO enunciate and main
tain doctrine which is destructive
OF japanese policy as IL has been
applied for more than q decade
| To the Japanese We are saying,
In effect, bluntly. without eouIvoca-
ton. Get out Of China poIiticalIv
Get out Of Siberia politically. Recall
your troops alike from Russia and
Chinese soil Recognize that you
have In both territories no other
rights than those which belong 70
all nations And. note that your
| presence in both countries, your
| pretensions on the mainland OF
Asia constitute not alone q VIOLA
ton Of abstract night but a menace
to the United States, so interpreted
\ by It"
Moreover. We are saying TO the
British IN unmists kable terms:
The evil course which Japan has
followed In Asia 10 due IN no small
measure 70 the fact that she has
been your ally and has exploited
that partnership in Asia 20 her
own advantage and 20 our harm.
The price Of American friendship
is the abrogation OF that alliance
VIII Csuss Resentment
But this. In reality, IL still an
| other act of aggression from the
japanese point of view. because
the greater value she attached TO
the British alliance. the deeper
must be her resentment when We
| undertake TO compel the abroga-
ton Of that alliance. Does one need
to recall the results OF German ef-
forts 10 destroy the Anglo-French
entente, as they were disclosed in
| French reactions 20 the Kaiser's
gestures at Tangier and az Agadirc
Fundamentally Mr.. Hughes case
rests upon the conviction OF the
immanent Justice OF the American
contention. Japanese efforts 90
dominate the Far East are not only
immoral they constitute deliber-
ate invasion Of the rights. not alone
of the Chinese but Of all the coun-
tries who would share in the
Chinese markets and have a right
to share therein. Not only has
China a right TO Independence and
integrity. but all other countries,
the United States in particular.
I
maintenance OF that independence.
To use the favorite word OF Mr..
Hughes, himself. we have Inter
ests"
But Mr.. Wilson'S case in Paris
rested upon q similar major and
magnificent assumption that what
was right was therefore possible,
practicable The freedom Of the
seas was q right Self-determina-
tion was a right All the fourteen
points were eternal verities. The
only difficulty was that the British
rejected one point. the French an
other. the Italians yet another and
the japanese q fourth. When Il
came to the point Of TRANSMITTING the
points into facts we all know what
happened.
solution May Come Amieabiy.
Now II is possible that France.
Great Britain and Italy supporting
us, we shall be able by sheer force
Of argument and In an entirely
amicable fashion 70 persuade the
Japanese 20 resign. not only their
pretensions out a goodly proportion
OF their realization of those pre-
tensions In the Far East. That is
the hope. So far as Mr.. Hughes is
concerned IL Is not too much 20 say
that IL is the expectation. Success
for the conference rests upon this
assumption. All the eggs are in
this basket
The trouble is that II Japan sees
her rights otherwise, then the
choice is between the surrender OF
principle, which ruined Mr.. Wilson
at Paris and the vindication OF prin-
ciple which means a war desired by
no one in this country, a war which
no considerable body OF American
citizens as yet conceive 20 be pog-
sible, thinl1able.
II would be a simple matter for
the United States and Japan, ST.
ting together at table. or Japan and
the United States sitting at able
with the other great powers 20
reach an adjustment which would
eliminate the danger OF war, the
immediate danger anyway. the
eventual danger probably, provided
the objective OF the conference
were to avoid war. I assume that
Il is automatic that neither ma
tion desires war. But Il is not 80
simple when one nation sets out
TO establish principles regarded BY
the other as inimical, not alone 70
its interests but even 10 its ex-
istence.
Three years ago, on the eve %
the Paris conference there we're NOT
few astute observers wAe ucr-
ceived that there was a very crave