The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-07
japan POLICY
HITS PRESTIGE
OF WHITE MAN
All Yellow Peoples View
Defiance of Powers
With Amusement.
SHOCKED BY AUDACITY
Tiny Nippon Successfully
Has Challenged Nordic
Supremacy.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Seripps- Howard Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Jan. Con.
scious Of the fact that their pres
tige is ebbing fast in the far east
the United States and the other
great powers are searching about
for a way Out of the Japanese
Chinese war"
In administration circles here and
OF the seat of the council of the
League of Nations, the impression
was given prior to Japan's latest
drive that if Chinchow were taken
drastic measures Of an interna-
tional character quickly would fol-
low.
Today Chinchow not only has
been taken, but the Mikado's le-
gions are reported advancing to-
ward the great wall of China be-
yond, and in the direction of Jehol,
capital of inner Mongolia,
Japans deliberate refusal to pay
the slightest heed to the great west
ern powers is playing havoc with
the much-vaunted white mans
prestige throughout the yellow and
brown world, it is admitted in dip
lomatic quarters here.
PassiOnately Interested
One-half of the population of the
globe, spread out in the near and
far east, are known to have been
passionately interested spectators
from the moment Nippon began her
conquest Of Manchuria nearly four
months ago.
At first, an oriental diplomat said
TO the writer, these peoples were
aghast at the temerity of the
Japanese for thus challenging the
mighty nations of Europe and
America. They expected Japan
quickly would be brought to terms
for her violations of the covenant
of the league, the Kellogg pact and
the nine-power treaty.
When nothing happened. except
mild reminders not only to Japan,
the aggressor, but to China, the vic
tim, that they ought to respect the
treaties. there was surprise. This
was followed by amaZement as
Japanese troops marched on to
Kirin, Taonan and Tsitsihar and
still nothing happened except
further mild conversations in
Toxic, Washington and Paris.
Paying No Attention
Today. it appears, with Japan in
full possession of Manchuria and
still showing no signs of paying the
slightest attention to the great
powers, the teeming east is buzz
ing all the way from Yokohama to
Suez. To the yellow and brown
races, 1t looks like the bubble of
western civilization has been
pricked.
Little Japan successfully has
challenged it, single handed and
alone.
The assault on the American
consul, Culver B. Chamberlain, by
Japanese soldiers in Mukden-al-
legged to have been carried out
without provocation in one of the
main streets of Mukden while the
American official was on his way,
la an automobile, to catch a train
lis regarded by many here as a
syrnbol-and as beginning,
1 am told that in Japan today,
the once growing democracy almost
has completely disappeared. An
observer Just returned from that
part of the world declared that
liberalism there has been set back
ut least a generation. The samural
spirit has returned and all classes
now are lined up behind the mill
tary.
The reason for this, my informant
said, is that everybody has seen
Japan successfully defy the United
States, Great Britain, France, Italy
and the whole of the west combined
A martial spirit is in the air.