Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-11-18
observation-disclosures
| WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK.,
BY lemuel F. Parton

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NEW YORK.-Gen. Sadao Araki,
~ gentle little man, who re-
War Lord Is arranges flowers
Partial to beautifully a d
cz,;... treasures delicate
cloisonne a n d
jade, thinks Japan should polish off
Russia, as well as China, while she's
in the mood to branch out The for
mer minister of war, on the side
lines for the last year, is again in
the power lineup, close to Premier
Konoye and a member of his new
advisory council.
He is an ascetic, abstenious in
all things, living on birdseed diet,
and, since directing the Manchurian
outreach in 1882, has counselled de-
corum and seemly behavior in the
appropriation of China. When he
found it expedient to defy the
League of Nations in 1882, he did it
in nice way.
He seems to want capitalism with
out any capitalists. A great many
industrialists were killed in his con-
quest of Manchuria. His peasant
origin accounts for that. The army
is largely recruited from the peas
ant classes-including its officers
and it has romantic feudal hang
over which makes it suspect and
dislike industrialists.
Pan-Asia is the generals main
idea, and from many sources there
-, has come evidence
zen. ArdRtS that it is also the
Big Idea principal objective
y. pon.As;o in Japan's drive.
Shrewd observers
of the Far East have told this writer
that all Japan's major policies are
directed to this end and that GER
tain Chinese generals, dealing I'M
der the table with Japan, also have
this in mind.
''Hodo" and "bushido" are the
generals two favorite conjure words
-signifying "the way of the emper-
or" and ''the way of the warrior"
Arranging his flowers, or presid-
ing at the tea ceremonial, he de-
plores war and bloodshed and con-
quest. They are all dreadful and
the world would be so much better
if everyone would behave nicely,
but, as long as they don't, Japan
has to 60 all the way through.
The general is angry when he is
called fascist or militarist. He
follows rigid discipline in his life in
his little cottage on the outskirts Of
Tokyo, and wears plain khaki uni
form with almost no medals or dec
orations.
Graduating from the military col
lege, he wanted to go into the navy,
but was diverted to the army by
the Russo-Japanese war. He likes
to do everything in nice way.
They say that once, when he had to
drown batch of kittens, he warmed
the water so they wouldn't expert
ence cold shock.
ok years ago, the British govern
- ent benched Sir Charles ALL
gustus Tegart, after he had been
dealing misery to terrorists in Bel
gan for 80 years.
Eapert Hoes Now they send
to Tame him in again
To,,ah A~ohs against the ramp
ant and riotous
Arabs, who are messing up not only
Palestine, but certainly delicately
balanced equations of foreign poll
cy, at a time when Brittania is
extremely touchy about such dis
turbances.
Sir Charles is a parsons son and
he married a parsons daughter. A
quiet man, soft-spoken and DELHI
crate, never ferocious, he carried
through one of the toughest police
jobs in the world. He joined the
Indian police force in 1901.
He was as ruthless as an INSTALL
ment collector in running down his
man. Those were years of plots
and conspiracies, and as he rose in
office his function took on broader
aspects of allaying or overcoming
social disturbance and he disclosed
sagacity and skill in this wider
reach to police power. All this
brought him the kings police med
al in 1911, and he has received many
other decorations and honors.
He was knighted in 1926 and since
1892 has been member of the coun-
-, Gil of India. He
hntgntnooo was educated at
Was ReUdrd the Portora Royal
to Tegart school at Ennlskll-
len and Trinity
college, Dublin. The latter awarded
him an honorary LID. in 1885,
Sending Sir Charles to Palestine
is taken as an indication that Britain
is warming up more aggressive
policy in the Near East, after quite
spell of stalling and shadow-box-
ing. He is especially skilled in
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