June 28, The Japanese delegation in London ig reported tobe im patient at the slow arid Economic Japproach to the is Many people will sympa this although it must be confessed that few conferences have start-jed amid such a general disbelief the possibility of any concrete result, "And it should be noted that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald' optimism is still in the ascen-Jdant—albeit Viscount Snowden in waspish mood would deny to' that buoyancy any special merit. Economic nationalism has been enjoying such unmitigated favour of late that it would b unfair to stigmatise Japanese restiveness. At the same time it is not altogether clear why Japan should at this moment be! so sedulous In spreading the notion that she is under a special grievance in that respect. While no nation can show an entirely clean sheet it seems a little unreasonable for Japan to be demurring to disabilities which in no small degree have their origin in her own repudiation of international effort. A few days ago in these columns Jattention was drawn to the Vigorous propaganda by which Matsuoka had endeavoured in of the piece at Geneva had been Great Britain. [Although well-informed opinion in Japan was ready to discount: this view, there is little doubt that the present wave of anti-[British sentiment has been kelp-fed, not merely by Mr. Mat-Isuoka's volatile essays in fiction but also by that curiously nerve lous nationalism which has had its root in uneasiness over the actual effects of the Manchurian adventure, extended as. it has Ibeen to considerable activity in the North of China. The development of the idea that British policy bias been directed Hin hostility to Japan has been encouraged by the accident of ithe controversy over the Indian tariff and the measures taken by certain British colonies to protect their trade—a line of action to which Japan of all countries lean surely take little exception. The charges thus accumulated Jare given a specious colour by dragging in the unhappy figure lof Lord Lytton who, having been chairman of a Commission to
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