The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-31
Chinese Minister Charges
Nippon Means to Absorb
All His Country.
MANCHURIA ONLY STEP
Or. Yen Visions World Wars
More Bloody, Unless
Powers Intervene.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scriuus- Howard Foreign Editor

plete conquest OF emma, LIT. w. w.
Yen, Chinese minister to the United
States, declared in an exclusive in
terview with Scripps-Howard news
papers here today.
To save Manchuria from absorp-
ton at the hands of Japan, it was
suggested to him, China might fol-
low the example. of Austria and
appeal to the League of Nations to
be made a sort of league protege
for a specified time.
China, he admitted, is in for a
long period of reconstruction.
During that period, she will be sub
iected to grave dangers to her very
existence. For its duration, there
fore, security is imperative.
Austria, it is recalled, during the
critical postwar era when her
political, economic and financial life
was in jeopardy, became virtually a
protectorate of the League of Ma
tions which superintendent her re-
organization.
Educated in u. S.
DR.. Yen was educated in the
United States. He is regarded as
one of the most brilliant diplomats
and statesmen his country has pro-
duced.
What we are witnessing in Man
churia, he declared, merely is the
latest phase of a program which
Japan carefully mapped out for
herself a long time ago. In ten,
twenty, fifty years-depending upon
deyelopments-she plans to doni-
nate China.
"A long time ago, Japan made
up her mind that she was going to
become a great continental power.
She would branch out from her
own little islands, and Korea, Man
churia and the rest of China hap
pen to be close by. Annexation of
that territory, therefore, has be-
come a very definite part of her
policy.
1.-THE japanese war with China
in 1895 was just first major move
AL Vic CACOuJlOll VI blldt pOl4Oy.
War with Russia, in 1905, was
the. second step, completing as it
did the independence, then the an
nexation of Korea, and obtaining
a foothold in Manchuria.
THE twenty-one demands of
1915 were the third step while a
fourth had been prepared for 1925,
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postponement. However, a couple
of years later, she invaded Shan
tung again, seized Tsinan-Fu and
attempted to stop the nationalist
drive northward.
FIouts All Pledges
"And now comes the armed seiz-
ure of Manchuria in direct violation
of the covenant of the league, the
Kellogg pac,, the nine-power treaty
and other pledges.
Thus, as you see, every ten years
or so, Japan advances her fixed pro-
gram another step regardless. And
if she is not stopped either by a
militarily strong China, Or by a
world organized effectively to pre-
vent aggression, she will go on until
all China falls under her domina-
ton.
Given time and security from
aggression, China will emerge from
her revolutionary period just as
England, France, the United States
and other great nations have done
in the past.
DR. Sun Yat-Sen left behind a
magnificent program. 1t calls for
world cooperation to put China on
her feet 1t call for 100000 miles
Of new railroads; 100000 miles of
paved highways; vast. new ports as
big as New York harbor; modern
cities; colossal irrigation projects,
river and flood control. water power.
and so on. Our more than 100000
900 population were to be relieved
by colonization in Manchuria, Mon
golia, Sinkiang, Kokonor and
Tibet.
Takes Time. Capital
China hopes eventually to carry
out some such plan as this. But it
will take time and capital and, Of
course, internal peace, and freedom
from aggression from without. 1t
would be of immense benefit not
only to China, but to the world A
modern China would offer a ire
mendous market for world products
at critical epoch in humanity's
development.
Japan, naturally, is opposed to
this PLAN She does not want to see
China become unified, rich, and
powerful. So she will prevent it,
If she can.
China, then, faces the alterna-
tive of making herself into a mighty
military power of her own, strong
enough to defend herself, or by de-
pending upon an efficient world
peace machinery.
This, In turn, means that the
world today is at the crossroads,
China is the test. Will the world
powers act to prevent Japan carry
ing out her designs against China.
and make the world safe from ag-
erosion. or will they allow the
peace machinery to be wrecked and
return to the status quo of 1914?
The latter way means the WORLD
is about to enter an era of more and
bigger and bloodier wars than it
ever dreamed of before"
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