Evening star., 1932-03-28
Japan IS SERIOUS
ION LEAVING LEAGUE
Considers Adherence Inter-
feres With Own Monroe
Doctrine" in Far East.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


The intention Of the Japanese gov
eminent to leave the League Of Ma
tions is no longer idle talk or intelligent
speculation.
According to dispatches received here
during the week end, the Toxic gov
eminent is reported to have definitely
decided to abandon that international
organization If the League remains
adamant in its decision to become the
supreme judge of the Manchurian dis
pute. The Japanese, while accepting
the good offices of the League on the
Shanghai issue. are firmly determined
not 70 allow any outsider to take a
Rand in the Manchurian question which
the Toxic government considers as per-
manently and finally settled by the
creation of the new independent state.
There are two serious reasons why
Japan would prefer to abandon the
League than to submit the Manchurian
question to any outsider.
Wants Foothold on Mainland.
Since 1895, the end Of the first Sino-
Japanese war, Japan has made great
efforts to gain foothold on the Asiatic
mainland. She never suffered military
defeat but was always automatically
Inundated. After every victorious war
the white nations got together and
''mediated" between Japan and what
ever nation she was fighting. The re-
suit of the mediation was that Japan
was never able to achieve its aim of
obtaining important possessions in
China. That happened three times in
the course of one generation: After the
Sino-JapaneSe War, after the Russo
japanese War and finally after the
World War when she occupied Shan
tung and was compelled to clear out
during the Washington Conference of
1922.
The Japanese attribute their diplo-
matte defeat to an undue interference
and racial feeling of the other powers
which, under the guise Of offering their
best advice and help to settle a difficult
situation, deprived Japan of the fruits
of her military victories. The Toxic
government has decided to prevent any
such occurrence from happening again
AS a member of the League Japan is
bound to accept the Intervention of the
League in any dispute which might be
considered as threatening the world
peace. BY leaving the League she will
not have to submit to League interfer-
ence, although theoretically she will
still be subject to the League jurisdic-
ton. But Japan knows full well the
League is not in position to enforce
her decisions on a nation which has
broken of all relations with her.
Doctrine Based on Force.
The second reason why the Japanese
government considers withdrawal from
the Society Of Nations advisable is that
she considers her presence there as in
terfering with her own Monroe Doc
trine," which she intends to apply in
the course of the coming years This
new doctrine, stronger than our Monroe
Doctrine because it is based on force. is
Asia for the Asiatics"
Nationalism is rampant in Japan to-
day. These few liberals who believe
Japan ought to maintain her place in
the international world are denounced
as traitors. The japanese are the pro-
tagonist of the school of thought that
might is right" and are convinced
that once they establish their unques-
tlonable leadership on the vast and un-
developed Asiatic continent they will
necessarily play an important role as
world power, more important than
If they continue to remain in the
League of Nations They argue Amer
lea is not member of the League ana
yet is is none the less one Of the most
influential nations in the world.
Irritated by March 6 Action.
Monroe doctrines and the League
don't 60 well together especially when
such doctrines are just being devel-
oped by force as it is the case with
Japan today. Consequently the pres
ence of Japan in the Society of Ma
tions is a serious handicap to her
grandiose plans for the future; to her
plans for the reorganization of Asia as
an exclusive playground for the Asiatics
alone.
These are the fundamental reasons
why the Toxic government has been
toying with the idea of abandoning the
League and becoming an outsider in
the West Pacific facing another out
slider on the other side of that ocean.
The action of the League on March
6, when it decided to enforce Article
Is of the covenant, has provoked d
natural irritation throughout the
Japanese Empire and this is being ex-
plotted to assure successful and spec
tacular exit of Japan from the League
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