The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-02-09

Former Cabinet Official Says
Feeling Is 'Indescrih-
ably Bad
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s By WILLIAM PHILIP SIM-MS +
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9s--Ac-
IlWI cording to word received here.
@ feeling of hostility is slow
/ ly crystaiizing in Japan against a
new disarmament conference, which
may not only block the efforts Of
President Coolidge in that direction
/ but the conference proposed by the
League of Nations as well.
Japanese feeling against both the
United States and Great Britain rs
| indescribably bad" according to
former Minister of Justice Ozaki
YulSio. writing In the important
''Yamato.' He blanes the i'll feel
Ing on Japanese exclusion, the pro-
posed naval maneuvers in the Pa
ctf1c and Britain's project to convert
Singapore into one of the worlds
strongest naval bases 2s'sg s
TT IS idle to hope for the success
of disarmament conference held
In the present sugly international
atmosphere" he says. And in the
event OF failure of such confidence
relations would be worse than lat
present. There would spring up a
keen rivalry lin the construction of
auxiliary naval craft and the expan-
sion OF flying corps"
Il Statement Important
This statement by a former
Japanese cabinet official is regarded
as highly important, first because it
states In very conservative way
what many other important Japan
csc are saying with considerable
heat, and, second, because Ozaki is
one of the best known liberals of
Japan. Only recently his life was at
tempted by an imperialist zealot.
who,s when arrested, said he did It
because Ozaki is a pacifist and pre-
vents Japan arming.
1t is known here that President
Coolidge will observe considerable
caution before launching call for
another arms conference In Wash
ington. Both houses of Congress
have just requested him to take
such action but he is keenly aware
of the danger of calling conference
and then having it misfire as Ozalxi.
He viii wait first to see what hap
pens to the leagues proposal and If
that comes to nothing he will quietly
and thoroughly sound out the vari?
GUS nations before acting.
=
ut is believed here, says the
Toxic correspondent of the British
owned North China Herald, pub
lisfsed at Shanghai, that If the Uni
ted State calls a disarmament confer
ence she would be doing so merely
because she has an ak to grind
And, he ADDS, "the feeling in Japan,
on the eve Of President Coolidge
sounding the nations as regards fur
Their disarmament is that the move
Is not prompted by Ideals"
Anti-American Trades
There is ample evidence to be
found in the columns upon columns
of anti British and anti American IT,
rades published in, almost all classes
of Japanese periodicals that there is
a widespread impression-whether
artifcially stimulated or not makes
little difference-that there is a ten
dency toward a British American I'm
Outstanding against Japan.
THE issue Of an arms conference
held with this feeling unimproved. I"
says Ozald, s'can well be imagined"
One important country, like Japan.
refusing to take part in the confer
ence Is quite sufficient to block the
whole thing. Two questions, there
fore, logically follow.
L.. Just how important a place does
the question of a new arms con-
ference hold in President Coolidge's
program?
2. VIII the President be able to
bring off gesture Of such grandiose
proportions as to disarm Japanese
suspicious? II so, what would that
gesture be? Favorable reccnsidera-
ton of Japanese immigration? Call
ing off the naval maneuvers In the
Pacificg Or what3
The former solution is considered
impossible, the other highly improb-
able.