Evening star., 1932-01-31

~ ~ "NA4oAS purpose. 1neSe documer
China, as a signatory, has the right
10 ask the powers particularly the
united States, which originated these
documents this question: What are
you going to do about it?" in view of
Japan S pare faced cynical violation of
the documents stipulations.
Preparing 10 Years.
have said before and I repeat now
that the Japanese general staff has ex-
pressed the view that Japan was
Inundated by America in 1921, and
Tor lO years she has been preparing,
now she Is ready. This Is no idle boast
In view OF the condition of the Amer
1can Navy as it stands today. America
alone could not fight Japan in Far
Eastern waters, the capacity of her
navy yards alone is insufficient to
make any immediate military action
possible. But in concert with England
the United States can discipline Japan
sufficiently TO keep her actions in
concord with the decent standards of
the family Of nations. In Anglo
American concord an expression suff1-
ciently determined still can check the
rapacious desires of the Japanese
shogunate general staff, which really
rules at Toxic.
Look Toward Australia.
With Japan, mastery of the Pacific
includes temporary but not permanent
actual SubjugatiOn OF China for the
purpose of arranging a system of local
governments which can be dealt with
individually without arousing other for
eign powers. Japan has long cherished
dream of coloniZing Australia. where
now eight to nine million white men
dominate a vast section ideal for Japa-
neSe colonization, something which is
impossible cl1matically in Manchuria,
and also impossible in Chinese provinces
otherwise suitable, because they are al
ready overcrowded by the Chinese peo-
pie themselevs.
Manchuria alone is not enough.
Japan must have a market for tre-
mendous industrial output, and Man
ehuria cannot absorb this. Japan is
mistaken in believing in force as the
only weapon TO Subjugate the Chinese
market and force small local govern
ments to break up anti-Japanese feel
ing and boycotts.
Wants U. S.-Chinese Alliance.
I would like to see an alliance brought
United States, not only for the sake
Of China but because We have common
interests.
The Americans only effective imme-
date weapon lies through co-opera-
ton with the League of Nations in en-
forcing economic restrictions to compel
Japan to comply with its pledged prom
iSeS.
regard some positive policy by our
Chinese central government as the only
hope for a unified policy although I
resigned as foreign minister when /
found it impossible to obtain authority
for carrying out any positive, though
peaceful, measures. 1 consider the
course Of events at Shanghai as per-
haps forcing a positive policy upon
Chang Kai-Shek and his cohorts. That
Is the sole remaining hope of unifying
the Chinese people and obtaining the
cooperation of other powers to preserve
peace in the Pacific.
Peace Plan Failed.
I am never a die-hard regarding
peaceful cooperation with Japan, and
as the Canton foreign minister I visited
Baron Shidehara at Toxic, arriving at
an understanding for peaceful meas
ures for working ous our mutual deS-
tinies without surrendering. China'S
sovereignty.
But such efforts failed when the
Shidehara regime was overwhelmed by
the military shogunate now attempt
ing consummation of the long-conceiVed
plan of mastering the Pacific basin.
Today we are faced with the specta-
Gle of a medieval-minded military sho-
gunate ruling Japan with the possession
of modern machine gun, whose opera
ton is thoroughly understood, while in
Nanking at present medieVal-minded
military mandaFinate, which is neither
Chinese nor foreign, has for use only
an outmoded machine gun, whose oper-
alton is not understood
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