Evening star., 1932-02-25
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laid Ia "a, all their trump cards dowp 91sd early y
embodied in the rine-power treaty, he
said, she certainly would have delayed
agreement indefinitely.
Ignorance" Is Charged.
"Mr Stimson displays an ignorance
of the history of the Washington con-
ference" he said
The views of the Japanese govern
ment regarding the applicability of the
nine-power treaty to the present stu
alton in China, he said. were presented
~tearly in paragraph seven of Tokio's S
reply to the recent note of the League
Council and also in passages In For
eign Minister Yoshizawa's statement of
February 81, written for the Associated
Press, which began:
ut would be equally impossible and
undesirable to repudiate the Wash
lngton nine-power treaty =" and
ending ito face the facts is the first
requisite Of craftsmanship" This, he
said, represented the views Of the for
eign minister and the government in
connection with the issues raised in
Secretary StimSon's letter.
Statement Is Noted.
The portion of Foreign Minister
YoshiZawa's statement referred to above
read as follows:
1T would be equally impossible and
undesirable to repudiate the Washing
ton nine-power treaty, which is a great
beacon standing alone in the mazes OF
Chinese international relations.
I'VE cannot pretend, however, that
this succinct treaty furnishes anything
like complete guide to international
dealings with China. Had China, since
the fall of the Manchu dynasty, ever
presented a coherent. responsible front
to the world, things might have been
different.
But in the present distracted state
of that country, ravaged as it is by
the rival ambitions Of contending
militarists' schemes, the nine-power
treaty becomes inadequate. 1t con-
there never has really been anything
but chaos.
Treaty Held Inadequate.
Therefore while Japan is fully de-
termined to live up to the provisions
of the treaty as far as they go, she
feels they do not go very far. Would
a new treaty, the product of a new
conference like that of Washington
prove any more complete? We cannot
help feeling, in the kaleidoscope state
of affairs in China, that it might pro-
duce more harm than good to endeavor
to lay down In conference fixed lines
of conduct and detailed provisions for
their application in that continually
changing scene.
dtTf ic tho ccffiod TNNliPu nf m
deal with each case as 1t arises by the
simple method of direct negotiations
with China.
when the interests Of other coun-
tries are involved japan heartily vel
comes their close cooperation. But
it is feared that any attempt to frame
rules for the multifarious and confus-
ing affairs in China would be an un-
dertaking whose magnitude would be
out of proportion to its effective re-
suits.
Wrong View Of China.
'For the same reason do not think
there would be much advantage IN fur
ther definition Of the terms employed
in the nine-power treaty. The existing
terms seemed adequate when the treaty
was framed and terms seeming ade-
Quate today may be wholly inappro-
pirate six months hence. What Is
wanter rather Is a frank recognition
OF the facts.
THE defect in the Washington
treaty, 1t seems to me, Is that 1t en-
visaged China not as it was, but as the
powers thought 1t ought to be. This
has deprived that instrument of much
of its value. To face the facts Is the
first requisite Of craftsmanship"
Cites Nanking Smelling.
The spokesman recalled that in 1927
the American and British Navies found
It necessary to lombard Marking,
despite the nine-power pact, when
Chinese Nationalist troops ran riot in
that city. Japan Is doing the same
thing now in principle at Shanghai, he
said and the only difference is in the
scale of the operations.
He demanded to know how Japan
could have invoked the nine-power
treaty for protection of her rights in
Manchuria, and to whom she could
have appealed.
Certainly not to the Chinese as
signatories of that pact" he said. I'VE
do not believe we could have protected
our rights except by direct action.
fundamental right to act In Self-de-
fense."
Denies Treaty Violation.
AS for the Manchurian issue, he
asserted that Japan is doing nothing
there In violation of the nine-power
treaty, and he added that Japan has
no intention Of infringing upon Chinese
sovereignty in the region Of Shanghai.
Toxic, he said, contends that the
powers signing the nine-power pact in
1922 hardly could have taken the
naive" view that Chinese sovereignty
and integrity actually existed at that
time.
Rather, he went on, the powers stated
at the time that they hoped the
Chinese would work toward attainment
of these objectives while the outside
nations would refrain from any action
which might interfere with Chinese
efforts.
The spokesman remarked that Mr..
Stimson appears to believe the Chinese
still are able to achieve full sovereignty
and territorial integrity If they are
left to their own resources. Japan
holds a different opinion, he said. con-
tending that the Chinese by themselves
never will be able to achieve these
qualities
In the desire that China achieve
strength and peace and unity, said the
spokesman. Japan differs in no way
from the United States in spirit-she
merely advocates different methods.
FRANCE APPROVES LETTER.