They should consider, the newspaper asserts, the commanding position they already enjoy in the Far East, and the prosperity which Japan might gain by living on peaceful terms with her neighbour.
Japan's prestige and military might, the journal proceeds, are not questioned. Her most ardent militarists admit that the conquest of China is no longer practicable, while ker economists know how great would be the strain of a war.
If, without moral qr legal case with nothing to gain but everything to-lose the "Guardian" adds, she now pursues the war she has begun, she will do so condemned by the whole world.
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