To the Ealtor of the '"Nonri<Curwa Day News"
Si—Your correspondent A Teaom this morning touches the very core of the Sino-Japanese problem. by Teferring to union between China and depen, for what Japan seeks In China is nothing but © union between the two sister kingdoms. and expounded the Buropean statesmen lever conceived.
He. planned. closer union in Europe which was commonly called "The United States of Europe" fatter the appellation of the "United States of America." Unfortunately his was not taken into due consideration by the European states men. -As it is, had his plan been adopted before' 1914, Furope might have been saved from the most dis-Jastrous human slaughtering in history, Briand thought that Europe could only enjoy prosperity and security, by evolving itself unit as is exemplified by the original thirteen independent states of Amferica, It was a pity that his sugiestions' were poohpoohed as a mere 'Utopia, "Later, however, the French statesman's sagacious ideas found followers in practical polities, In Europe the Sarraut Government of France suggested regional ententes in' Europe under the—supervision of a European commission, This suggestion was considered more practical than the "United States of Europe" plan of M. Briand, but it wag destined to failure, and European unrest is rushing to its ultimate fate, namely, the second European Another follower of M. Briand' {Ideas is Japan who is responsible for the creation of the Japan-Manchoukuo-China bloc, which is nothing but M, Briane's plan for closer union in Europe, both politically and economies ally, Those Western critics who would only see imperialistic designs in Japan's foreign policy would re-JJect this similarity as fallacious. But it" will be recalled that European orities lent no ear to Briand's ideas fas they suspected that some ulterior ity, and prosperity as 4 single unit just as the U. 8. A. does, Mr, Kawai, chief of the Informa. tion Bureau and spokesman of the Foreign OMice in Tokyo, recently wrote a book entitled "The Goal of Expanding Japan" in which he says among, other things: "What Japan seeks in China is economic development and political tranquility cultural ce-operation of the Asiatic Peoples, and not the establishment of the relations between Lord. and vassal in political, economical, and social fields." The JapansManchoukuo-China bloc which will just be the nucleus of the United Sates of Asia }does not mean monopoly by the bloc of the Asiatic continent to the exclusion of the third powers, whose interests will not only be protected, but augmented by the permanent establishment of pence and order in the Orient, your correspondent says, the union of the two countries on his enumerated terms may save the two faces, but let me add one more vital item, 0, the resignation of Chiang Kat-shek from. the hi post of dictatorship, otherwise Japan face wil not be saved, (A Japanese Free Lance)
Shanghai, May 6,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.