The Washington times., 1937-10-11

Says
BOake Carter
stimson's Policy
U. s. in the Far East
Another ENHANCEMENT

type Of delusion under which so
many unrealistic people labor,
including former Secretary Of
State Henry L. Stimson.
Earnest, sincere and intensely
patriotic, Henry Stimson has re-
vealed in an open letter to the
New York Times how good men
may live in a sophistry so long
that they actually reach the
point where they believe it is
a truism.
Stimson pours fulsome praise
on the Roosevelt administration
for abandoning neutrality and
plunging this nation into foreign
entanglements on these grounds:
That Japan is an interna-
tional brigand; United States
isolation is immoral; that the
United States and Great Britain
should boycott Japan; that to
avoid war we have placed
"peace above righteousness. We
have already gone far toward
killing the influence Of our
country in the progress of the
world. We have endangered our
own peace; support for the
League of Nations; I'VE not only
must not fear to face issues Of
right and wrong, but We must
cooperate with nations who are
similarly facing those issues.
NOW, Henry Stimson starts
~ off from the preconceived
assumption that the United
States has been selected by
Divine Power to stand as police
man over the morals of the rest
of the world. From that as
sumption, he proceeds conf
IDENTIFY to the next preconceived
conclusion: that, ipso facto, the
United States must be in the
right.
You don't hear Mr.. Stimson
saying anything as to WHY war
flares, with its brutality and
bestiality, in the Orient. You
don't hear him explain the his
tory Of how the Western Powers
the nine Powers who signed a
treaty-carved themselves nine
slices out of China. You don't
hear him explain the inference
of the fact that if we have main
tanned troops in China since the
Boxer rebellion, it must be be-
cause we do not believe the
Chinese can maintain law and
order themSelves-itSelf a back.
hand insult to China.
You don't hear him explain
that the Open Door policy es.
tablished by the United States
years ago was simply a high
sounding policy to cover COM
mercial imperialism Of the
United States in China.
MIR. ST1MSON never explains
AVA that under the guns Of
Commodore Perry, in 1853, we
forced Japan to open her ports
to American commerce and so
became the nation responsible
for teaching her Western ways,
sold her Western machinery
and weapons of war.
He didn't tell how America,
through her power of the dollar,
dominated the Washington con-
ference, the Nine and the Four
Power Treaties, bound the West
ern nations on the dotted line
to help the United States main
tain her dollar diplomacy su.
premacy in China.
MO, he simply says we must
~ be righteous before we are
peaceful. Hooey! Where is the
righteousness of erican
thievery in CHINA policy that
every Secretary Of State has
supported for the last 80 years?
What Mr.. Stimson wants us to
believe is that when we set eight
thieves to catch the ninth thief,
it is q holy crusade for . great
moral righteousness. He calls
for "rebirth Of American cour.
age" to support that policy Of
Oriental thievery.
The courage will be reborn
when American citizens tumble
to the racket they have been in.
advertently supporting for 30
years in the Orient, turn their
backs on the moraliZation Of
statesmen and demand that we
stay in our own sphere Of in.