Japan has several good reasons for waiting and watching. For one thing she cherishes a grievance against the rest ut us. A. few! years ago she was dealing rudely China and we interfered as China's advocates, finally putting Japan ina position which no Asiatic nation could assume without resentment. We stayed the rod and told Japan that the way to get! the most out of China wag to appeal to her better nature, to be patient, kind and helpful wita her. Japan agreed reluctantly to' play the game according to our rules and she is playing it now with her tongue in her check, saying at every turn: "You want patience? Til show you what patience means. You want conciliation? Watch Apart from this Japan has a domestic problem as England has. test. Most Japanese "observers think that the conservative element is growing in strength now at the expense of the radical. They feel that with the next election a Government will come in that will be almost reactionary so far as Jepan's China policy is concerned and that it will have a majority that will enable it to say "rubbish" to the conciliaters and deal with Chinese up-highness ina fashion that will being the Koo's and the Chen's back out of the cleads with a rounding thud, The Seiyukai, under Tanaka, is expected to work this miracle, until Japan sees it performed she dares not attempt a revision of policy any more than America's timid administration, with intelligent ear to the receiver on the Far Eastern wire but A sensitive forefinger on the political pulse. There isn't line in the preceding paragraphs that would be news to anyone in the British or Japanese Foreign Offices or that would convey a new thought to the American State Department, Wellington Koo and Eugene Chen deceive no one who has a finger in the broth of policy abroad. They are simply playing upon what they clearly recognize us indecision due to domestic dificuities.
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