Repentance Wanted First fo the Editor of the "Nowni-Cinva Day News"
Sim—There are Ave possible menus change of. or remedy to, a situ ion of international important" namely, conquest, compulsion, _chi-canary,, revolution and evolution, Conquest means war; compulsion chicanery may lead may revolution while evolution as @ pacific means requires cooperation and: implicitly resolutely, observation of law and" order. The ost of human progress varies with the adoption of one of these means, Such means as are now adopted by Germany and Japan are antiquated although they are operating accord-Inge to. some" results of modern. vention and discovery. In the light of history the consequences of either are war waged. by Germany or that waged by Japan can be foretold.
What the war in Europe or over here may cost. to humanity inten eral and to the nations directly In-Volved in particular will not end with the war llself. 'There are direct cost and "indirect east and" the latter Tatgely immaterial may even increase after the war "actually" ceases. to operate, Whether' the cost can minimized or reduced depends, upon how peace 1 to be brought back.
And the war itself must bring about a "new" situation. Of course maintain the changed, or "newly created" situation is "new" pro= Diem in itself. Again there are five possible means to a solution; namely, by conquest, by compulsion, by chieenery, by revolution and by evolution, At the same. time one. must well recognize that the new situation will Become old almost. immediately and that there will arise demand and necessity for change of or remedy to it, The two sets of means may come to crush. Then nothing can be certain oF secure.
Is evident in the Far Bast that those in. the control of Japanese power polities which have to do with the war against China do not, think 'oF talk about the cost of "victory! which they are s0 sure to secure, "for Japan," except what they want China and the Chinese to pay In every, un~ Timited way. Tt is, therefore, certain, fs one may observe. that the cost of Human progress is thereby bound to increase' so much unnecessarily.
At present the Japanese Premier, al Nobuyuki Abe, declares, that "Japan morally holds the leadership of Bast Asia". Not cynically retort but truly responding, one immediaie question is: what leads to. the cadetship? What does it mean? Where-to docs it lead? Who follow and who acknowledge it anyway? While actions speak louder", than words, the world hears from and. the Japanese no Idea of ship, but a kind of domination or monopoly, And the index of Jay jose domination is glaring enough to overshadow any elaborate show Which. the General may. prefer to attempt anytime, What a well-meaning cute docs hope to see is indeed, that there shall bea leadership in the Far Eastern Asia. Whoever can assume the leadership must be tolerant, just, faithful, magmanimots, farsighted, re sourceftl, and patient enough. In other words, leadership among na-Hons in'Asia as among Individuals ina community implies tolerance, Justice, faith, magnanimity, farsighteelness, resotireetuiness and patience. No nation, not even Japan, needs. to for 'Jeadership' which, unlike Dossism, rises with virtue and vigour, with villainy, "Tf Japan confidence and admiration, This, of course, calls for u confession of sin—repentance for all" the wrong. committed. Next there must be a Jeonscious choice of the means to bring back peace and preserve it and that culls for a realization of righteousness. a spirit of sacrifice, a goodwill Toward men, But that eon hardly be expected in view of what General Abe enunciates. as the positive ad: vance policy of Dai Nippon, apparent-presuming prior that the com Guest of China is a fait accompli.
Shanghai, Nov, 24,
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