Mr. Josef Washington Hall, better Known perhaps by. his name of "Upton Close, non gratis in Japan. to Japan on one of his period visits and, according to the Jay facili taken by the Foreign Office when it learnt that Mr. Hall wag contemplating a visit to these shores.
The reason for this is said to be that Mr. Hall has been purpose-"misrepresenting" Japan, especially since the outbid churian Incident "regarding which since the ai of the Man: the rest of the world is yet grossly] ignorant!" Mr. Hall is described by the Japanese press as being always bent on mischief, as a disturber of the peace and as being assiduous in the furtherance of anti japanese soda. "He has been in the type, the paper continues, the Japanese Government ought to' take steps to prevent their landing on the sacred soil of Japan.
There is a great deal more said] about Mr. Hall's pecadilloes and]
ty, to aprrceiate the great] fand glo jous role that' Japan is playing, or toying to play, as the preserver of peace in the Far East and the champion of the down. trodden. millions. of Asia (which presumably includes China), and the of the Foreign Office not per for inspecting. the country" fed as one of the signs ushering the era of "farewell to obsequi jbservient diplomacy, initiative"
diplomacy.'
With all this fuss made about him, would! appear to the on-looker that Mr. Josef Washington Hall has scored another undoubted triumph The charge of foreigners being]
japanese"—a very elastic tion, incidentally, about as das.
that wonderful phrase "dangerous thoughts"—simply because they cannot conscientiously see eye! to eye with the Japanese ix one that glibly and. thoughtlessly made time and again with parrot-like repetition. "If a country wants to safeguard its own interests and 30 the goods come from Japan—dubbed fantisJapanese. But the best ex:
of this war pal and distorted 1 of reasoning is the charac-fon here, of the Lytton Report as being "anti-Japanese," and, therefore, unworthy of any' atten: tion. Any. impartial outsider who has' read this erudite and calmly. reasoned report will pronounce it to be one of the outstanding documents of the present age its undoubted dis-interest, adherence to the truth and its sin-ore efforts to hold the scales ovenly. But, simaly because it did not register a blanket endorsement, of all that Japan did when she sudden Ty attacked and oxer-ran Manchuria, therefore, Lord, Lytton and, his report are both "anti-Japanese"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.