Mr. Hachiro Arita, the Japanese Foreign ter, on January 21 will rebuke the United ment for its "conceptional diplo-ío the Tokyo "Nichi Nichi." wil probably accept the which it is given, though hether he will have the lea what it means, "Conceptional dipiomac; it is to be feared, is another bafling phrase w ill be added to the already extremely ed language of international relations which has grown up since the dictatorships of Fascism, National Socialism, and the Imperial Way made themselves forces in world politics. No one counti particularly tó In great phrase is "appeasement," which has an interesting and speculative variety of meanings. Since the phrase was coined, there has been a remarkable number of nations wanting to be "appeased." In other lands diplomacy is "authoritarian" or "totalitarian," which mean, that the nation intends to take what it is not given it voluntary diplomacy is another recent growth, which would shock the diplomats of ihe school who believed that their principal duties were to grease the wheel of progress and preserve amicable relations as long as possible. The student of diplomatic practice may be pardoned if he finds all these different methods and names a trifle difficult to follow. And it, therefore, seems deplorable that Mr. Arita—or perhaps it is only the "Nichi Nichi"—has invented a new deviation. In the meantime January 21 will be awaited with some trepidation by everyone who would like to know what "conceptional diplomacy" really is.
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