Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-31

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politics in the East may be defined by
| one word-dissimulation" II he we're
| living today to witness the diplomacy
and politics Of the situation following
the victory OF the Chinese Nationalist,
| he might put more than the one word
into his definition, as certainly the set
| Element of affairs between the new
| government of China and the rivalries
and antagonisms-and dissimulationS-
of the Tanaka government of Japan
are going to require many words.
y u y
The United States has already LED
| the world In recognizing the National
| ist government of China by signing a
| treaty July 2s) regulating tariff rela-
tons between the two countries. The
tariff schedules are not fixed, but. what
| is of greater significance, China Is
recognized as enjoying full autonomy in
fixing her own rates of tariffs on i'm
ports. Just as independently as we our
selves enact protective schedules. Fur
thermore, the treaty guarantees to us
the rights of the most favored ma
! ton"
Now. there is nothing in that treaty
which prevents equal privileges to other
nations. including Japan, vet word
comes Immediately from Japan that
that government looks with jealousy
upon our brash initiative as indicating
an American determination to assume
leadership in the Orient, even above
that of Japan.
1t has been the traditional policy of
the United States throughout the his
tory of the open Orient To show our
most friendly attitude toward China.
1t was the United States, under the
Secretaryship of John Hay. that FIRST
declared for the open door" by which
all nations should be upon the same
| footing in matters of commerce In
China. It was the United States which.
under President Roosevelt, first proposed
| purposes) the Boxer rebellion irdem-
nifty, which has been potent infiu-
| ence in compelling other nations to
! follow suit. No other nation has shown
/ the disintereStednes in friendship for
| China as has this one. American au-
! thority was what prevented the parti-
/ ton Of China on more than one occa-
| sion,
| And now comes American leadership
| in first recognizing the new govern
ment and felicitating the Nationalist
upon their victory over the reaction
! aries
Japan has made record for attempt
/ ing to seize advantages in China when
| she took over the German holdings and
| then made intolerable demands for
them. Japan is Chinas next-door
neighbor. and is thu most powerful ma
ton In the Orient. Besides, Japan
claims special interests in China. or at
least in Manchuria and Mongolia.
1T taN
will not easily surrender those claims.
Yet she heSitates to declare their exist
ence. The practice of politics In the
East may be defined by one word-dis-
stimulation"
Only last Saturday an Associated
Press dispatch from Toxic declared that
Chang Hsueh-Liang. governor OF Man
churia. personally visited Premier Ia
naka of Japan to hand him a letter
soliciting Japan's friendly assistance,
A parallel with that act would be found
II Mayor Thompson of Chicago should
go to London to petition King George
OF Great Britain To support him In
driving out of his city Federal agents
enforcing laws Of the central Govern
ment. or II Senator Helm were to ap-
peal to the Pope against Tammany. ig-
noring the Government at Washington,
have any dealings with the governor OF
Chinese province in international re-
lationS?
Word comes that Premier Tanaka re-
piled to the governor that Japan has no
territorial ambitions as to Mauchuria
but that she Is concerned In fearing
the influence of the BolSheviki there
Yet the victorious Nationalist gained
their victories only after they had ut
terry discountenanced Russian BolShe-
vsStic influence and dismissed Borodin
and all other Russian agents within
tn domain of the Kuomintang~~th
organized Nationalistic control of az
fairs. There will be no stronger oppo-
Sition to BolSheviSm possible than that
put up by the Chinese Nationalist,
and the profeSSed fear Of BolShevistie
disturbance In Manchuria as an excuse
DiSraelian terms. according to knowing
diplomats, Discrimination.
1t will be borne In mind that the
present premier of Japan, Tanaka, has
always been a pronounced advocate OF
intervention" in China. He became
premier on the eve OF speeches severely
critieiZing Baron Shidehara's So-cailed
friendly policy" toward China, and
demanding that the Japanese intervene
to protect their interests Baron Shi-
dehara'S policy esnade no distinction BE-.
tween Manchuria and Mongolia and
the rest of China, II was all recognized
as China, not Japan In April. 1927,
Baron Tanaka, who was a prominent
member Of the Choshu Clan-~a radical
natioaalistic or iingoistic organization
and formerly a general In the army
and vice chief OF the general stat and
made a speech which was published in
the japan Advertiser. He said, In part.
Disturbances In China have gone
from bad to worse. and the conditions
there threaten to penetrate into the