To the Editor of the "Nomra-Cuina Daty News"
Sm—If one takes the least trouoie to examine the reputed Liberal Foreign Policy of Japan during the Shidehara era, one is compelled to the inevitable con-elusion that, as far as Ching was concerned, it was no more than a temporary respite from that Posltive Programme of conquest and aggression; and. that for. the Sniy. of consolidating' "loots, "or fruits of victory, already acquired, Nothing was done that could in the slightest impair the prestige Might or diminish the reality Possession. No redress" for past injuries, no restitution for accomplished plunders.
In that very era assertions were repeated of Japan's insistance on her "acquired" rights, and of the maintenance of her "special" posttion, in. Manchuria and. Mongolia. Rights and position in. utter con: tradition to the principle of Open Bpportanities. and China's sovereign ty in these territories, as pledged to by Japan in numerous treaties and agreements, hi-lateral or mutilateral, with the interested Powers, not to' mention those dictated the impotent China. That much for the accomplished plauders.
Tu that era too our request for a settlement about the Tsinan Lom: bardment, with the admitted murder of Foreign Commissioner eas serenely' ignored; to, give one conspicuous example of ins_and violations of ure were of customary and regular order. Minor and me j_. Xoshituka, the chief Japanese contributor to your correspondence columns, hay the Japanese Liber alist in a nutshell "Often we cannot undo what we have done, as undoing may cost fas, much as another doing."
after. the elaborate "one doing" in Manchuria! Surely, any indeing," however thorough, Mould not cost as much as. that Shanghai, Jan, 29, 'A Japanese View To the Eaitor of the "Nowra-Cuina Datwy News"
Sin,—Your hubltually conciliatory land amicable attitude toward other countries as recently shown in your preciated by" al ibs eat mia redated, by' all liberal-minded Me Danese. Then you said "One thing ie certains. there the world fat" more Boot wit 1 Span than her spokesmen sometime appear to" beleree Ht that Sages ctgenius of her people Beryl thre crat And the statemanthip of their Ieedee wilt be unequal to the task' of pret Serving, an orderly progress SER he" penesoving majority 9 ihe equine desire for peace ea the part of Japan can be attested by" the warm reception which the [Japanese public gave to the recons utterances' of Int, Hirota, Foreign Minister. Tm his answer to. the interpolation of Me. Nagashima, of the Seiyukai Party in the Dies yesterday' "(January oun ate frota went even s0 far ay to say that an establishment of demilitn ised frontiers as In th boundary. Tine between' the Dominion of Cana the a few of them were grave enough, singly, to constitute a war potenly" in another country.
Nevertheless, the people of China—and of the World too—look back with a sigh to that as the era of conciliation and. m". TO Attribute this to the generosity of of the Chine id. be to make ° a virtue, of a necessity. Weak China rejoices at however short spell of comparatively unmolested existence. But powerful Jupan resents that spell of inactivity, whether spontaneous or {m= posed by the watchfulness of the between the two. countries Temueding "the defense of natio Kontera: we tend to a tthe in tne Canada"
ional poundaty bette While the' peaceful intentions of JJapan are' indisputable, itis ceedingly regrettable that many other Powers over. their respective Chi publicists are looking for interests, as useful time wasted. ithe troubled water which Japan may trong has been that, resent-[be forced to bring to pass by the lent that assassinations of states-force of. cltcumgfincea. it deems men considered responsible for the [that these Chinese are so conscious polley of inactivity has been Attempted with varying success.
Another thing that is worth with Japan as a victim can feel the ct rid war alone noting Is that Europe and hie countrys 1 would not America wore then not "as pre: its moral aspects. Possibly Chinese occupied ax the last two or th morally justified to resist to the swith the economic depres-fast "and "take advantage "of? the Sion and political unrest World, and had a freer ebablo mistpuine which nay Bez a Japan. But they "thou te: cope with their interests Member" that, almost the somme al Whether the necessity, for a they had taken in 10048 pene:
iseretion on the part of Japan diauatlted" them ton yor may mot detract from the its of her moderation, need not Eset" voice in the Wspostion for the present occupy our atten-Mfanchuiay Even such'f genemsn Des W. Ween tne Gum Ambassador to Russia, would not Mon portant ig the fact that, eaitate to" predict the word a "fa pat! is capable of, with "oF without sinister yatvo. Liberalism does not go. beyond: fact, "recording. to" tig. Singupors Svea, Oifen, "for, the tine corespondent "of the "Daily Teles chews' We have pinnered ax much ing, peobablyy tore than we can uephty he' is, confident that. the Pactic' would be the segue of the the other Powers, just now, next world outbreak. Should the would possibly let us' Te is time world war break out, the same old how to make ture of what we have question may arise, that is, "can already "acquired time now for a period of conciliation and, modcra~ the neutrals' reniath meeally newt Hon" To the. World: "Have no ral" Gan there be such "thin neutral in the moral world?!" fears, Our intentions are peaceful feurse, nobody' wants "wars" The far as you are concerned." To China: "Shake hands—until for-[Great War taught. us once for alt ther notice Utter futility and sheer stupidity The Hirota speech in the Diet had no other purpose but that of allaying fears in Russia and the United "States, and sot dissuading these countries from preparing against. het. That "sensational book of "Liewt-Comm. 'Tata Tal maru was ug more than & warning against further antagonizing the world, or the Powers that count militarily, through the Militarists' bombastry. Both the speech and the book are the ottteome of the 'Soviet's, stiffening attitude. Japan's blu' has, for the frst
regret for the wrongs again me, been called! Nowhere has the China. been, shown. Nowhere has a pretence been made of the inten: tion to make good Japan's past pledges, "Not only is there no com Fomplation of restitution jresn towards China for the i juries of even the immediate past: upheld with an unmitigated Yet both the speech and the book have been hailed as represent-me a Tapsn recoining her senses. a Japan repentant!
Uchoves every sensible pee-Wis uimoat Ty comternedg inet humanity for any Feoponsis Doreen to-abet war must, whether Brat person oe I Dace at. Horses Joreph Stalin, or We' We Yen By in the PaeiNe some Bury. pean counties' nay exit none 8d. Fantages, but the world wil surely Inve its own sou, and the elissa" tien cllapre to our diem Shanghai, Jan. 31,
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