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use Follows Effect Regularly, Says "Times" In Analyzing Tokyo's Foreign Policy don, Feb. 4.
srüee in "The Times" entitled "Japanese Policy "sums up the trend of- Japanese foreign policy in recent "When Gone toad which so far has shown no turning her the Right of September 18, 1931, Japan in Manchuria a certain dexterity in persuading the Japanese popin the: shadows: which events. cast before extent the world that effect usually precedes
ives. By that process they at-any rate to their own. satisfaction, the justice a which thereupon they. felt inevitably called upon to the. Manchurian ins: caught napping, new technique tions in China than any other Power. Her elimination therefore was a primary objective in the eventual elimination of all western influence from China. 3 "While the sympathy of the British people has in the main been with the Chinese and while like other countries Britain has rendered certain material assistance, neither sympathy nor such limited assistance would itself have been responsible for the vigour of the Chinese resistance, For this Japan can claim the credit, "By her action of attempting to dominate China she has aroused in the Chinese nation a unity, will to resist and combative spirit which never was previously seen in a normally peace-loving people. What Japan has aroused she now seeks to quell It is perhaps not surprising that she seeks to lay the blame. elsewhere, Germany Points the Way yoke. of the white man sok he Tenens ina tad was quit "With the apparent impasse in China, the war in Europe appeared *o present possibilities to Japan. During the preliminary inactivity she was content to remain passive but when at the end of June, 1940 Germany could claim to have overrun and' conquered Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, there surely was proof if ever proof were needed that Aggression does pay. Japan changed her Government and the of which Mr. thi dh. was after a little preliminary hesitation signed the pact with Germany. and Tly openly ranging Japan with Britain's. enemies and threatening the United States if she dared to intervene. It was perhaps a pity the meu it e of m time "The ape. engaged in a macious foe, and un States, whose main e re in the struggle, lared Setenvos is to theless Bet. time and encircle Japan.
this hardly credible but anyone Whó believes Germany, and there Reason to ose that the of Ji day do, will g. Is the shadow of t the shadow which precedes events? Is the event in its the which will call icllon just abd Inevitable? It would all be in accordance with the techni-described in the first paragraph Yet it seems hardly japan would resort to and suicidal a course, 1014-18 offered un-
As a signatory to ty of Versailles (a fact "overlooked by both Why and "Japan today) beneüfed by the fruits of tory abd secured: among other (Marshall and Caroline Islands, details "whose administrations and development she has been curiously to divulge to the world at urge for some time past, Prosperity, Gone "Ag a result of enormous sacrifice of blood and treasure by the Allies, compared with which the drain on Japan's own resources was infinitesimal, she enjoyed. years of great prosperity and peace, ordered government and growing worl trade. The speculative tendency of Japanese finance meant that the great slump of 1029 struck Japan even more severely than most other era Wévàlent of blaming others nations but" the fashion was not
fót one's' own ills and until the turin of 1931 she pursued a sane us policy of trying to re-
"Shë" did more: she pursued the inevitably right- policy of trying to cultivate Chinese friendship. This?whis*the"only-way she" could ' hope to' secure that large share of the Chinese market which close proximity to cheap manufactures would tie her.
But the long record of Sino-Japanese. animosity dating particularly from the war of 1894-5 and the 21 demands of 1915 was not easily eradicated. The virtues pd. patient perseverance which won Pg the respect of other countres in by-gone days tended to be during the rapid rise in nation of ambitious materialism, Bath of Aggression
Army an opportunity, in September, "This gave certain alranis in the 1931 to"āttempt a short cut to prosperity, Japan was launched upon the path of aggression as opposed to that of conciliation and settlement of by: force instead of negotiation. When Manchuria had fallen" ánd. a puppet regime was established it became clear as early as/1995- that proper or at any Yate; North' China formed the next stepping stone of Japanese expansion, "Hostilities which began in 1937 and have continued nearly four years have caused countless suffering'to millions of people and led to the occupation of all the ports of 'China' and many great cities but havé.not yet brought Japan what she sought nor altered the will of the Chinese people to be masters of their own destiny. immediate overthrow of Great Britain, promised by Hitler to the world at large and Japan in particular, was unlikely.
When this fact became patent and at the same time the United States displayed most lively and apparently unexpected reaction to the pact, there was indeed a degree of hesitation in Japan and the world was puzzled to learn at one moment that the pact did not mean what it said and the next that it meant precisely, that. But Germany was at hand, shè whispered in Japan's ear that all was well, that the United States was not ready for war and could be frightened with a few sturdy threats and that Britain's destruction had been deferred only to make it more effective,
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