Ibis interview was obtained two days before the earthquake achen Visecunt Goto was helping to organize the new Cabinet.
"That China and Japan must stand and. fall together was the opinion of the Emperor Meiji, who hold that there must be no orial aggression toward China by Japan."
In spite of the fact that he was, at the moment, perhaps the busiest man in Japan, Viscount Goto, formerly Mayor of Tokio and about to Become either Min-isto of Foreign Affairs or Minister of Home Affairs in the new Cabinet, which he was instrumental in organizing, saw your correspondent to discuss ths relations between Japan and ina. Viscount Goto is Rooseveltian in personality. Keen, brilliant, en-ergotic, he appears almost incongruous in the leisurely, artist-ie surroundings of his Japanese house. Viscount Goto's career in the Japanes Government service has been remarkable. He laid out the city of Dairen and modernize ed it; he was the President of the South Manchuria Railroad and made that the best managed line in the: East; he organized the Japanese administration of Formosa and recently attempted to reorganize the government and management of the city of Tokio, with the assistance of Professor Charles A, Beard, formerly of Columbia University. Viscount Goto thinks in terms of organization. He realizes that the strength of Japan lies in her utilization of the technical efficiency of the West. Originally a physician and sanitary expert, he has come to have a keener appreciation of the relationship of government to the welfare of the individual than ig usual with Oriental statesmen.
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