Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-29
JAPANESE TRADE CHIEF
URGES i. S. AID in CHINA
Sanji Muto Holds Dawes Plan Would
Stabilize Business Conditions of
Asiatic Nations.

| our other ASiatic neighhorS. We do
! not expect an equality of treatment
! in the home markets of our Ameri-
can and European competitors. If
these competitors hold alien lands in
| Asia and other places in our natural
| trade zone and pass laws to exclude
| us from free competition. we believe
we have a right to complain
ut was the use of politicaR power
! to foster trade that led to the World
! War and which caused most of the
other wars in the last half century.
| Trade rivalry of this sort implies the
! use Of force. 1t leads to rivalry in
military ornaments, another potent
cause of war"
AS respects China, Mr.. Muto is
anything but n-interventiCnist.
Outside intervention. he declares. Of
ferS the one possible hope of stabil-
| izing conditions and avoiding condi-,
ton of chaos that. If continued. will
be q, source of great danger to world
peace for so years or more to come.
Needs Dawes Plan.
What we need" he said, ''is
Dawes plan for China and, as was
the case with Germany, no one ex-
cept the United States can hope sue
cessfully to inaugurate it.
Il am confident that if your Mr.
Dawes or some other business man of
equal ability and strength of char
acter would come to China under an
agreement of Great Britain the
United States and Japan to act to-
gether for the purpose of establishing
stable government. he would be
successful. The theory of the Wash
ington treaties, which is the policy
of the present Japanese government,
is al wrong so far AS it proceeds on
the idea that China must be left en-
tirely to work out her own salvation.
China. AS 1t seems to me, is helpless
TO help herself and neither is it pos
sible for foreign governments to
withdraw completely from China UNI
der present conditions.
Foreigners have entered business
in China under a promise of protcC-
ton from their home governments.
Believing in the good faith of the
assurances of stable conditions. given
us. we have invested large amounts
in Chinese industry. In the case Of
the spinning mills at least. we have
never asked and do not now ask Spe-
cial favorS All we ask is the main
tenance of a government capable and
willing to protect our property from
confisCation and our plants from de-
Struction. If the powers were to with
draw from Shanghai tomorrow. that
protection would not he given. No
stable Chinese government would
take their place and the only result
Would be chaos vastly worse than
now exists.
"Customs autonomy for China is
all right as far as it goes. hut it will
not of itself provide a stable federal
government.
"W hat the powers must do is to
RECOGNIZES the government that seems
to be the most representative of all
China that now can he secured ana
then give this government the finan-
cial hacking necessary to firmly eS-
tahlsh itself. The trouble with in
terventiOn in the past is that it has
proceeded principally from selfish mo-
tives of the Intervenors. All of the
powers except the United States have
offended in this regard and that is
why the United States alone can take
the lead now in a movement for re-
habilitation of China. Japan cannot
do il because Japan in the past has
done things to destroy Chinese con-
hdence Whatever we might pro
pose now would he looked on with
suspicion. and the same is true of
Great Britain and other European
powers. But the tnlteO states IL
different In the Philippines you have
given practical demonstra ton of in
tervention in the interest of the Fill
pinos, the same sort of intervention
that is now necessary in the interest
Of the Chinese people.
China Would Welcome Move.
The Chinese people, believe,
would welcome foreign intervention
if it was suggested by the United
States and with American assurance
that it was with the purpose of re-
storing Chinese sovereignty. Once
stable government is established the
possibilities of development of China
are almost unlimited. China has
limitless supply of labor and raw ma
terials. All that it needs is capital
and directing ability. which the United
States and other foreign countries can
supply. if only they are assured OF
stable business conditions.
Japan is very poor. We have lit
tie If any capital to invest abroad and
we cannot use much foreign capital
in industries in Japan. We can CO.
operate with American capital in the
development of China and in that
co-operation I believe, rests the hope
not only for stable government IN
Asia but for prosperity of the Chinese
people themselves.
Copyright. 1926