"This Association's views on Japan's attitude and policy in Tsingtao and the obnoxious quarantine regulations imposed. this summer which appear to us to be economic weapons -in disguise have been fully dealt with quite recently, so I do not propose to touch on them again. I mention them, however, as taken in conjunction with our attitude on the Shavt case, it lays us open to the charge of being anti-Japanese; I would like to take this opportunity of publicly stating that we are not anti japanese in the sense that we are opposed in toto to all Japan's legitimate aspirations. We realize the vital character from her point of view of many of. her aims, and we are perfectly willing that she should succeed and prosper in such aims. Both from a political and an economic standpoint we see how much is to be gained from cooperation and compromise and how much there is to lose from mutual
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