Evening star., 1925-07-05
Time Will Bring U. S. and Japan
Closer Together, Says Shidehara

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in her fundamental love, not only of
justice, but of generosity. We be-
lieve that one day she will understand
us. We believe that her distrust of
US, so far as she has any such dis
trust, will disappear. We believe
that national American demand for
justice and fairness and neiEhborli
ness toward the Japanese in the
United States ~ill sweep away all
standing. and with them all dis
elimination by American citizens
against the Japanese within their
gates and the Japanese race as a
race. There will be no trouble about
it. knowledge of facts and
conscience will do the work.
America and Japan will continue to
stand side by side, with friendly
sister nations as guardians of the
peace of the Pacific"
Japan's Views on Emigration.
You have no ambition to swamp
America with your people?'
I'VE have no ambition to swamp
any country with our people. We do
not want to send America a single
Japanese to whom she objects. That
would not be good for her or us. 1t
is sentiment and principle and de-
Votion to the amity of peoples-not
the wish or necessity of emigration
that actuate Japanese citizens and
the Japanese government in respect
of the discriminatory clause in the
American immigration law"
1T has been reported in America
that the real Japan does not well
come the effort in America to have
Japan included in the quota. Is this
true?"
1T is entirely untrue"
rs the immigration problem the
only important problem betweeI
Japan and America?
1T is the only one
Opposed to Provocative Alliances.
Japan will press for the removal
of all forms of discrimination against
the Japanese people by whomsoever
practiced?"
"In a friendly way-naturally."
rs it probable that obdurate occi-
dental indifference to Japanese sus-
capabilities would issue in an Asian
entente of some solidarity"
No. Such an entente would hold
out no promise of what we are seek
ing, namely. all-round recognition of
the principle of equality for our
people"
Would such an entente contra
vene tendencies toward a settled
world peace?"
Decidedly Japan deprecates all
segregative movements inimiCal to
the aggregative interests of the
world. / mean that we are opposed
to the development of combinations
of powers pursuing particular rather
than general world aims. Such
rom hi rQ in nlrr m
build up the mental and material
conditions of warlike conflict. Our
conception parallels the general con-
ception of the League of Nations as
we understand the league"
'Japans dominant moral and intel
lectual forces are for universal and
permanent peace?"
Beyond all question"
On BOlshevists and BOIshevism.
DO you think Moscow hopes to ex-
plot Japano-American difficulties ia
vorably TO its ideas of worldwide
communism
If it so hopes, it will be disap-
pointed"
DO you think Russian communism
really intends. if it can, TO destroy
so-called capitalistic society"
Its constitution, l believe. contains
="HaVe YOU any kind of degree of
sympathy with the bolsheVists?"
1T is not my province TO criticize
principles of government in any for
eign country. l can say, however
that bolShevism. so far as / can pene-
trate 1t, IL utterly repugnant to the
elementalS of Japanese, tradition and
character. But l am not without a
certain sympathetic. feeling toward
bolshevists as distinguished from boil
SheviSm-toward the human beings,
that is to say, who have sprung this
unexampled and puzzling doctrine
upon the world. Most of the bolshe-
visit leaders are Jews. Their blood is
the blood of a race long and cruelty
prosecuted. May not an error of judg-
ment of the modern world and an
emotion, perhaps, of revenge run in
that blood?
Product of Age-LOng Tyrannies.
Moreover, the Russians now in
power are survivors or descendants of
the age-long tyrannieS of the czarS
Their memories are bitter memories.
They remember nothing but Serfdom.