The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Foreign Policy
Body Sees U. S.
WARMTH Japan
Tokyo Policy Threatens
US. Hegemony in China,
Pacific, 1t Reports

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-War be-
tween the U. S. and Japan in tho
struggle for hegomony of the Pacific
and control over China is envisaged
in a report issued today by the For
eign Policy Association, an append
age of U. S. imperialism.
The report declares that the q. S.
policy of the open Door" in China
and U. S. imperialist interests are
threatened by Japan's "far-reaching
bid for complete Japanese hegemony
in the Far East" The report makes
the significant statement: y
"Given the hesitancy of the Eu-
rOpean powers to venture on vigor-
GUS support of the open door, the
chief Onus of its defense is likely
to fall on the United States"
Japan's policy, the report declares,
contemplates the realization Of the
program of the Twenty-one Demands
Of 1915. These demands, designed to
establish Japanese control over North
China, especially the Shantung Pen
insula, were met with fierce resist
ance by the u. S., and Japan was
forced to withdraw them and to re-
call its troops from Shantung.
Japan's present drive to realize
these demands is sharply attacked In
the report as a challenge to "the
effective maintenance of the open
door policy in China and threatens
to drag China along against its will
in the van of Japanese imperialism"
The report raises sharply the ques-
ton of the U. S. fighting Japan as
against the alternative, with which it
speculates, as follows:
Withdrawal from the Philippines.
after negotiation of a pact with
Japan neutralizing the islands, could
be completed; American extraterri-
torial privileges in China relin-
linquished; American marines with
drawn from Shanghai, Peiping and
Tientsin, and American gunboats re-
moved from the Yangtze River and
Chinas coastal waters. The Exclu-
sion Acts could also be repealed, and
a few score Chinese and japanese
immigrants admitted each year on
quota basis"
Against these steps, however, the
report summarizes that "such meas
1res might eventually jeopardize even
the legitimate American interests
in China" emphasis ours, Daily
Worker
The report suggests third alter
native, already adopted by the Roose-
welt government in frantic war prep
arations, OF building up a huge navy,
and of attempting to overcome the
increasingly bitter antagonisms be-
tween British and U. S. imperialism,
in order to effect an Anglo-American
alliance against Japan. The report
further speculates on an alliance be-
tween the U. S. and the Soviet Union,
PARIS, Jan 18.-The imminence
of new world war is emphasized in
the increasing speculations In Eu-
ropean diplomatic circles on the pos
sible lineup Of the various imperial
list powers. This question was dis
cusSed today In meeting of the
Foreign Affairs Committee OF the
French Chamber of Deputies. Some
members OF the Committee declared
that Nazi Germany will support Japan
In an attack on the Soviet Union,
Former premier Edouard Herriot
expressed the opinion that the United
States would oppose Japan's attempts
to add to its war resources by the
seizure Of the natural resources OF
Siberia.
The speculations are significant in
showing the conviction of European
statesmen, based no doubt on secret
information In their possession, that
Japan is planning an early attack on
the U. S. s. r. The discussion in
the French Foreign Affairs Commit.
tee is further significant In the light
of the study by French financiers of
a scheme to finance Japan's war on
the Soviet Union.