The political signif man-Fapaniese ever, is suid to be of fur greater importance than its commercial sentimental value. This side is discussed at length by Mr. Katsuji Inthara, formerly connected "vith the Tokyo Foreign Office and Jeuderavriter for some of the pri cipal daily papers in the count Mr, Inahava who 's regarded as authority on diplomatic question, Begins by saying that the Japanese consider that Europe has been, and today, divided into two camps that of East Europe and tha: of West Europe, represented before the war by the Triple Alliance and the Anglo-French Entente, and today by Britain, France and Belgium against Germany and Russi "Germany was admitted to the League of Nations and, at frst blush, it appears as chough she has gone over to the Western can through the Treaty: of Locarno." he writes, "but this is only what appends on the surface. The fact la that Germany has put one foot in the Western camp and is keeping the other in the Eastern camp, but with the relations between Great Britain and "France, on the one hand, and Russia on the other, as: they re, Germany cannot maintain' Such an attitude indefinitely and will have to declare for the ore or the other suoner or later." that her -new attachment to the former is permanent and to the latter only temporary. "For Germany," he says, "Western Europe is the drawing room or the pall. room, while Russia is the Kitchen lor store house, Germany still] ardently desires to recover her Tost} position in Evrope, and it is unthinkable to conclude that—she will fail to make the best use of her
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