'To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cntwa Darcy News'
SmI have been one of your readers for many deeddes who appreciate heartily the moderate, im-Partial tenor and tone of your Cditorlal—articles, However,—the sue of your journal dated' april 21, under the caption of "A Grave vIsgue", has disappointed me conslderably.
T hold brief for no one and speak for. myself, when I say that Japan has had enough we think of in the ast thirty or forty years. Japan has tried the so-called Tanaka policy and found it wanting. Nor has the Shidehara policy been.effective dealing with China, Both have their merits. as well as their serious foibles. Bitter experiences of the est few years in connection with) the League of Nations brought her finally, it would seem, to the convietion that "we are the only country capable of being responsible. for the maintenance of peace in the Far East, because of geographical fand other reasons which hardly need explanation."
"Japan rises against of tain powers which, the guise of the defence seek mainly to make her a according 10
Every sensible Japanese hates to be a bully or a braggard. But he has come to believe himself sincerely a8 the champion of order and elvi-Nzation In Asia. If you. would counter-argue that such a way of believing 1s out of place, then It is for you to prove that we are wrong.
Is ft not true that the League ions has "remained dumb in the face of Chinese nationalist provoca: tion"? And yet the League is anxious. to help China who feels ill-will toward Japan, To stiffen the Chinese titude against Japan, may very reasonably be taken bythe latter deliberate" provocation, What is sought by Japan is not the establishment of a Japanese hegemony, but merely a legitimate claim to be the guardian of her bes interests in the Far East. Even the "Dally Mail" says that Britain's special position in Australasia has always been recognized like that of the United States on the American gontinent. This journal "finds "difteult' to see why Japan's pre ponderance of interest in China should disputed."
Tt would appear that you are raising a grave issue yourself, when you H¢ Ould use such inflammatory sentences shown below:
"It ta but natural that a storm of indignation should be sweeping over China for' its. "sovereign integrity" Is Are you not very rash in passing your own verdict when you' stated. that "the statement of a new policy: sich as that under notice possesses grave potentialities for China and flgo the rest of the world", since Tokyo's second declaration proclaimed fidelity to the "Open Door" policy in China?
'AS a matter of fact, Japane spokesman said that Japan had no Intention of interfering with the interests of other powers engaged in trade transactions beneficial China and asserted that Japan did not intend to deviate from. her policy of Open Door and equal opportunity or to infringe existing treaties. Again he said that Japan desired' the unification and "prosperity of China, but unification and Prosperity "must be obtained China's "awakening, by her own endeavours, not by' selfish exploitation by other powers.
All in all, your leader seems to be of an utterly alarmist nature, Tara Shanghai, Apr. 23,
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