The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-06

K. K. Kawakami widely is regarded
as Japan's chief unofficial spokesman
on this side of the Pacific. Being I'M
official he can and does call a spade a
SPADE His new story. lampooning the
League of Nations. therefore is far
from being Just another book" about
Manchuria. 1t is as though Nippon her
self were telling us and the rest of the
world what she thinks and what she
itends to do from now on in China.
By Scripps-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, April 5. - That
Japan has taken up the white mans
burden in Asia and will stick to it,
sink or swim, is the scheme of a
sensational book released for pub
lication today.
Its author is K. K. Kawakami, in
ternationally-known japanese writ
er of Washington and Toxic.
"Manchoukuo, Child of Conflict"
is its title, and it is a sequel to the
same authors Japan Speaks" pub
lished shortly after the invasion of
Manchuria.
Lampooning the League of Ma
tons for its verdict against Japan,
it accused the assembly of prejudice
and unfairness.
For the first time in history"
Kawakami declares in his preface,
"a non-White race has undertaken
to shoulder the white mans burden,
and the white man, long accustomed
to think the burden exclusively his
own, is reluctant to commit it to
the young shoulders Of Japan, yell
low and and an upstart at that"
Hits at Stimson Doctrine
Hitting back at the Stimson Coo
trine of non-recognition and &C.
neva's adoption thereof, Kawakami
warns that IF the league thinks
that its refusal to recognize Man
chaukuo would force Japan to re-
cede from her present stand, it like
ly is to be disappointed"
In fact, he asserts, Japan would
prefer it so. Recognition would
mean a lot of foreign eyes prying
about Manchoukuo, whereas non
recognition means the new state"
will have time to carry out its pro-
gram in its own way.
But, the author charges, Japan
also blundered at Geneva, as well
as the league.
Japan's blunder was not to press
her case at the start instead of
waiting, as she did, until sentiment
froze against her.
VOc11Lo Ndotci1OLo 0,,JocuocfiO,o n LoIzr
one of Japan's ablest spokesman"
arrived too late on the scene, for
Geneva already had been swayed
by the preconceived opinion formed
in the months when Japan was sin
gularly reticent," the book says.
When Matsuoka finally arrived in
Geneva, he faced "a packed jury"
Kawakami holds that the Lytton
report, to the league, on the whole,
lis a commemorate document, with
observations and suggestions which
Japan could have used to her ad-
vantage"
Key to Whole Problem
He intimates that Japan would
have done we'll to accept the report
in principle, then base her case on
the fifth recommendation Of the re-
port itself. This declares:
"Since the conditions enumerated
above can not be fulfilled without
a strong central government in
China, the final requisite for salts
factory solution is temporary in
ternational cooperation in the in
ternaI reconstruction of China"
These thirty-two words, in Kawa-
kami's opinion, are the key to the
whole report.
Until the condition expressed in
these thirty-two words is fulfilled"
he states, "the rest of the hundreds
of thousands of words contained in
that document are of no practical
value
Until fulfilled, none of the other
recommendations could be fulfilled,
and as China would never permit
outside powers to perform this
grand scheme of overhauling,
Japan might have gone ahead in
Manchuria at will.