Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-17
ARTICLE XII.
BY UPTON CLOSE.

when an Asia awakened every
where stands behind Japan in her
demand for the abolition of racially
discriminatory treatment your Con-
eressmen in Washington may not
feel so free to ignore the feelings or
us on this side"
Minoru Okla, former cabinet min
lister, Japanese delegate at Versatile,
editor of the leading economic pup
LEGATION in Japan and policy" editor
of the Toxic Ashanti and Osaka
Mainichi combined daily circulation
of $500, 000), was speaking. He showed
no rancor; he is one of the least mill
tant Of Japanese leaders.
Leadership in the revolt OF Asia
against white dominance and discrlm-
nation has suddenly passed from
Turkey to China-from the European
to the PACIFIC front. At the same
time the championship Of white CIV
ilization" and the prestige or the
white nations has passed from Great
Britain to the United States.
Great Britain's hands are tied by an
idealism, however faulty, which mas
come out of Moscow, which causes
British labor to side, to it's own ma
terial loss, with Chinese coolies
against it's own government, ana
grooms China and Afghanlstan TO
knife Great Britain in the back just
as the British groomed Japan 10
strike Russia before 1894.
cage of the Pacific" Is Here.
1.-THE Age of the Mediterranean has
passed. the age of the Atlantic is
passing. the age Of the Pacific is upon
u.s." said Theodore Roosevelt. Were
he living today he would point out
that it is here, with Russia, China
and the United States facing one
another across an ocean which thus
far has not been streaked with blood,
and he would say, in harmony with
his policy when President, that the
fundamental principle of Americas
craftsmanship should be the creation
Of an outstanding, friendly Japan.
Although it is a principle that the
near rivalry always overshadoWs
the far grudge," Japan is certain TO
be forced into a triple alliance of
Pacific Asia" unless she is given, not
only friendly words, but definite aid,
by rs. Since the abrogation Of the
Ang1o-Japanese alliance, at the in
sistence of the United States and the
British dominions, and the passage or
the American immigration act of July,
1924, which convinced Japan that she
could never make real friends of he
Anglo Saxon duo, Japan feels she is
the most isolated nation on earth.
Russia Bidding for an Alliance.
No country that does not produce
it's own iron and coal or all or its
own food can afford to remain tso.
lated. Russia is bidding for Japan's
friendship, as is shown by the re-
Gently renewed fishing, mining, tim
l. In Sthnrin a
Saghalin Island, some of them taken
from previous American concession
aires like Sinclair.
In 1922 / was sent by Gen. WI
Pei-fu, then dictator of China's gov
eminent, to greet Abraham Adolph
Joffe, the first Soviet Ambassador to
arrive in the Far East. After travel
ing with him from Hardin to Picking
I published in an American magazine
that Russia's ultimate policy in Pa
cific Asia was the formation of a
triple alliance of Russia, Japan and
China. Every Russian-engineered de-
velopment since has been IN that di-
rection.
Russia has concluded very intimate
treaties with Japan and the Picking
She is aiding with adj
visers and her merchant fleet on the
Pacific Asian coast the Cantonese Ma
tionalist government. This fleet has
made the arms embargo of the West
ern powers against Canton practical
ly ineffective. Russia Is carefully
avoiding clash with Japan in Man
churia, while at the same time check
mating her in every move to sup
port an anti-Nationalist movement in
China.
Willing China Should Lead.
The result is that Japan has re-
signed herself to the Chinese Ma
tionalist movement, and will be the
last power to offend it and the first
to recognize it.
1--WE recognize" said Mr.. Okla, that
China is going to take political pri-
macy in Pacific Asia away from us.
But we can endure that-turning our
ambitious national spirit toward Gull
tural rather than material achieve
ment-if China will enforce world
wide respect for the dignity of our
race"
The feeling in Japan against our
method of restricting immigration,
which they regard as our arrogant
placing of the yellow man In a lower
category Of the human race, is very
deep. Nor is time mitigating it a
particle.
There is not Japanese" said
Yusuke Tsurumi, who is building a
Young Mems Liberal Party upon the
ideals Of President Wilson, who
would not give his life today to re-
move the stigma which he feels has
been gratuitously placed by your
Government upon our nation. We