Might v. Right To, the Editor of the "north-Caixa DAILY News."
SiR—A United Press cable.appeared in your Journal of the 7th, joting Lord Lytton as saying to ie Collier's. Weekly that:
span _in her (present state of mind is in no mood to be blued and could hurl herself against any nat combination of nations, rogardie of circumstances, is in can be changed only by sympathy and Does" Lord. Lytton consider his Commission of Inquiry. as already Jeonctuded, and that he is free again take instructions from his own (Government and speak as an Eng-Fishman? Or could the influence of the desire to compromise with, or surrender to, the "realities" of Might at any sacrifice of Right have seen so strong. as ¢o cause such [short-sighted and. dangerous "remarks? Shortsighted and dangerous For even the most unprincipled self-Interest of any motion, and for ¢he true and ultimate good of Japan.
The World makes an exhibition of its fears that Japan "is: in no mood bluffed oe. "ordered about," and Japan is not slow to fake it asa hint that she isto do fall the bluffing and ordering about to, the whole world. "Had not her ing War Minister, General Araki, our Empire te ate and ight:
fore, expected Japan condemning hor actions and fons, Could. these voices enced so. effectively, outside "help? Who the saner elements in Japan may not be anxiously waiting for a moral pressure Yom, outs to dampen the. militarists' insatifable Fust for conquest and glory? Who knows if, with proper encouragement, these elements may nob Ihave their head again, one day?
Self-interest_may have its uses hatred its satisfaction, but they be so devoid of understanding? Has Japan to. be encouraged such "an extent, until the other nations shall be compelled to act For their own and direct interests? Until she get the illusion that. she {is strong and determined enough defy the whole world; until all sense of hypocrisy has left her and until she takes it into. her head to "punish. the Whites for their' im-, China understanding well that she has made a disgraceful show in the present Crisis, and Japan admirable one. None but the brave, the powerful, the well-equipped and the ruthless, deserves a. sympathy, she to understand that interned tional equality is only measured by the calibre of cannons, the weid of bombs, the number of warship fand aeroplanes, and the thoro\ ness of massacre and devastation?
China understands that all. the del indulgence of the Japa nese, and all the. malicious lies against, her, have been to chastise her audacity to aspire, without the necessary qualifications, for an in= ternational equality. That all her cringing efforts. towards foreigners the fast two or three years have been worse "than useless, for, to some, "anti-China-ism" is, a reli gion to be defended with the fana tieiem of the Inquisition, even through the if'we are actually can secure our one without drawing the sword from Its been proph ow of her deter.
accomplished the Gove ernment and the patient clements nf our country, at the risk of being branded as traitors, have done everything hum possible to keep the resentment of the popula~ tion in restraint. Heaven knows how long we shall be able to resist much "without. drawing the swer nay thee rent. efforts of the sup-from its scabbard;" for even public opinion has not dared to quest her right and her methods for e posely neutrals to exasperate us by, adding insult to injury? Japan has, s0 fax, responded well to their oes to Japan, Chit as been urged, seared and scolded into more. re straint and submission; as if it is China, not Japan, who has ¢he situa-in her hands. "Japan gets all the Chie et eer sympathy and no understanding,
Journal, x little while back, "a year has been pointed out b
ago, Japan might have accepted the solution recommended in the Lyte Report." The pleasure of breaking 4 promise could certainly not have ben the gale motive which prompted an to assist In carrying throug unanimously the resolutions for the Withdrawal" of her troops?" But ever litle readiness Japan had Yor a compromise has been smothers fed=by" the unscrupulous and Teck. less sympathy of the public opinion, less the World is really bent on I further aggravating the itn. tion, it is. time now to undo te Gamage through an intelligent and lunprejudieed understanding, sin-corey and ayin express to "hurl Herself against any nation, pan does not yet feel prepared
td she has til Tile hyper down t0 all the lies a in'her. For why does she stoa When a whole section of the Ins ternational Settlement was. turned over to the Japanese for a military base; when Japan tried to make us believe that they were acting. behalf, and with the consent, of the forvigh authorities; when the the fiery sermons by the leader of the largest. foreign community to exe the Japanese on would have added credulity to those contentions, we sympathised with the impotence of the Settlement against the reality of the Japanese might, and understood We Chinese have readily believed even the most incredible. Why don' the foreign governments, press ani public understand the simplest and most obvious truth?) Moral and ations, of cows, bat. there should at least be an understand 1 true and enlightened No amount of hypocrisy will ever exonerate the montyers of th League from their neglect "of the Gonvenant, so why add to this, the guilt of lying? 'The text of Article XVI is explicit, the obligations thereunder automatic, and precludes chance of' technical misinter= and, for moment, Japan was made to waver over the righteousness of her course, But international resentment died down as soon, as foreign interests: were safe again; so Japan cannot: 000] but believe that,' for Single time only, she has erred in her whole successful career" of aggression Successful diplomatically as well militarily.
For a while yet, Japan will make promises to respect. the rights of the other nations; in making promises she has never hesitated. But how long will she remain impressed with the sanctity of the foreign interests? Give her the to do as she pleases with Chi vince her that the World is trembling: before her; and she will be trapped into a situation, when there will be no alternative but to hurl herself against anyone, regardless of consequences. Japan herself will not give thanks then for thus coaxing her into her own destruc tion, There were, at the early stages of the Crisis, liberal voices even in The' logic of this world is' topsy tuwvey. "We have been accused, on! hypothesis, of violations of treates dictated t6 us at, the point of the bayonet. Our "delays and pinpricks? against the illegal air the Japanese "expansionist policy' have considered crimes grave enough to justify the Japanese actions. Bue Japan dictated. And the breach of the voluntary vows under the Convenant by the members of the League is lauded for its sagacity on account of "the realities of the situation," the reality of might and possession, of fairs accompli If the authorities at the League and the other governments Inck the courage to materially, full their obligations, it is the mot that the moral responsibility must be taken up by the public and the Now that the Lytton Report is available for reference, this is quite easy, However the Comments and Recommendations may have. been a compromise with "the realities of the eitvation," the facts contained
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