China at the present moment has three dread enemies. It is necessary at once to note that not one of these three is Japan. The first enemy is article 21 of the Covenant of the League, which lays down the untenable doctrine of so-called regional understandings, which is not only a direct challenge to China's integrity because of its interpretation, but which is destructive of the League itself. since it permits all member powers to form private groups to exploit in their own interests the territories and waters of neighbouring member powers. China is determined to have this article amend ed. She looks particularly to the British dominions for support. She believes that the dominion countries will not tolerate the Pacific Ocean being broken up by private agreements into spheres of closed seas, in which mischief can be hatched.
ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE, "The second enemy is the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which, as I hope to show during my stay in Canada, will, if it is renewed in any form whatsoever, tend to lead to a war, in which China must necessarily participate on the side of the United States, thus rendering nugatory all British declarations regarding England being absolved from participation in an American-Japanese conflict, since the intervention of a third power, munitioned and technically equipped by one of the belligerents, must make the alliance apply to both signatories; otherwise it would be no alliance at all.
"The third enemy is the Lansing-Ishii exchange of notes, with their equally untenable doctrine that geographical propinquity confers rights.
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