The Archive · 1936

A NEEDED REMINDER When Mr. Kezue Kuwajima, Director of the Bureau of Far Eastern

Affairs of the Tokyo Foreign OMe, reminded Japanese press corres: pondents that anti-Japanese feeling China has not necessarily arisen out of the acts of the Nanking Government, the Kuomintang, or the Communists, he did his countrymen great service. It is dificult to believe that a similar reminder Addressed to the military and naval authorities of his nation would not be of even greater service. There are, of course, always those who will {in troubled waters for their own ends agitators and others who will work on the already strong sentiment against Japan in order to Ret something out of the deeply embarrassed Chinese Government. But these clements would be powerless did there not exist a well-founded resentment among the more informed population of this country against a Power that has cut off China's north-eastern provinces, has taken a large slice of Charhar, and alloyed to be formed under iis protection the so-called East Hopel "Autonomous Government; openly refrained from curbing the Smuggling of its nationals, and has done other. things too many to mention. The Chinese people would hot deserve the name of a nation if they did not feel enraged by this high-handedness, Mr. Kuwajima is right when he suggests that Japan. Should look for the root of the present ant japanese feeling deeper down than surface agitation, and there will be general sympathy with him in his search for' a policy designed to remove that feeling,

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