The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-07

force OF arms.
China now realizes that
she is to receive no aid from
the league or from the United
States and that she will re-
cover the "lost provinces"
only when she has an army
equal to the task.
Any thought formerly entertained
by Japanese liberals that the anti
war machinery of Washington and
Geneva ultimately might restore
the territorial and administrative
integrity of China" likewise has van
ished.
BluntIy put, these three facts
mean that more than a decade of
American effort and progress to-
ward outlawing war was ended in
failure-temporarily, at least.
Effort Is Premature
The last two years have demon
strated that so far as the Far East
is concerned, Americas efforts to
substitute reason for force in inter
national disagreements were prema-
ture.
The conclusion is unacceptable,
though there is no disgrace attached
to the failure, which, in the final
analysis, resulted from Europes re-
luctance to cooperate.
Since the world obviously is not
prepared to outlaw Japan for what
it has branded as her treaty viola
ton in Manchuria, and since Japan
and the United States must con-
tinue to occupy opposite side of the
Pacific, common sense demands
some workable program, even though
it be erected upon the ruins of
decade of progress toward world
peace.
Two Courses Open
Today America faces the alter
native of continuing indefinitely
futile protest against Japan's
Manchoukuoan program, or Of rec
ognizing that other nations, less
content than ourselves with their
present territorial boundaries, are
not yet prepared to accept foreign
concepts of idealism, if or when
these concepts clash with their ma
tionalistic interests.
Until there is a more nearly
unanimous world opinion than ex-
lists today about all that remains
in the way of an American anti
war program is to argue the prac-
teal advantages of our idealism,
instead of offering it as an ultima
tum.
We can have faith in the worlds
ultimate abandonment of force, but
meanwhile we can not sit by and
sulk.
Japan today is the one nation to
which American craftsmanship
should be devoting its most serious
consideration. Upon the intelligence,
tact and far -sightedness of this con-
sideration hinges the peace of the
Pacific. That peace is endangered
today.
Army Rules Japan
Japan knows it. We should know
it. Who is responsible for this sit
uation is not as important as what
is going to be done about it. There
never has been less cause for dis
agreement between Japan and
America than exists today. Never
have the tangible advantages of
good will and cooperation been so
obvious.
Never have the suicidal certain
ties of conflict been so apparent.
But logic and reason do not pre-
vent wars.
The army completely dominates
the present Japanese government
and is supported strongly by all
factions except small. thoroughly
cowed, and wholly inarticulate lib
eral group.
The army has convinced the peo-
pie that japanese statesmen re-
peatedly have been out-traded in in
ternational conferences designed to
preserve peace and the status quo.
The myth cleverly has been built
up that the United States has been
chiefly responsible for thwarting
Japan's ambitions.
Even more serious. the japanese
public has been convinced that
America, inclining toward pacifism
in consequence Of female suffrage,
is facing military impotence because
Of public clamor for tax reduction.