Moscow's latest plan for perpetuating unrest and diffusing hatred Jamongst nations and races, when the Soviet induced her ropresentatives, together with those of Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and China, to sign an agreement for the forma tion of a League of Asiatic Nations, has fallen flat on official circles here.
When the Pan-Asiatic Congress met in Nagasaki last August, the Japanese Government, in more ways than one, distinctly showed that it }was not a party to the affair. Officially, Japan declared that she was Jnot in sympathy with anything that tended to weaken the standing of the League of Nations and, with regard to the latest move of Moscow, a Foreign Office spokesman expressed the view that it wa "mere, fatuous, Moscow flapdoodle, which' is the most graphic translation that can be applied to: the Ja-Panese phrase he used.
'The papers, however, pronounce' benisons on the new movement and fare inclined to think that its inception has been accelerated by the reports that the Americans are contemplating a League of American Nations.
"An Asiatic League of Nations is bound to come," says one powerful JJapanese daily' organ. "Movements looking forward to a union of Asia-{tic countries have been going on for some time and will soon take forma¥ shape. Japan's indifference is [vexing and irritating to na and, 'Offcialdom, on the contrary, seems Jquite certain that its attitude to-Wards such movements is the best 'Ae only in the interests of Japan herself, but in the interests of the world.' The Japanese Government is firmly convinced, for the present at any rate, that whole-hearted cooperation with Great Britain and the United States is the wisest and best policy Japan can follow to-day and is not likely to commit this country to nebulous schemes, the! foundations of which is hatred of the foreigner.
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