Despite the uncompromising at. titude of sections of their local com munities, that was the fundamental Polley laid down by the British and American Governments for the Setaments, in spirit where not in the Teller, "ress Governments "were willing to admit that a progressive government such as China had estab. Aished at Nanking in 1928, which had entered into the most cordial political and commercial relations with Britain and America, was entitled to require that, complementary to the envisaged abolition of the status of inferiority signalized in the Bxtraterritorial Treativs, the Chinese citizen of the Settlement should have his vote and, as the natural consequence of such fair-dealing, should ultimately secure hat his national section of the community had preponderating influence dri the Settlement's municipal life.
This was Anglo-American policy and it marked a point of radical conflict with the imperial. policy of Jepan. Jepan's interpretation: of the legitimacy" of Chinese national separations was, unfortunately for the welfare of Shanghai. all too soon made clear. The militant power creting to a progressively moderniz~ ing Japan had been accelerated by the benefits afforded her by th World War. It was a misconception, shared by large sections of the foreign communities of the Settlement, that Japan's aims in China could ever be the same as those of America and Britain, Fundamentally, Japan sought Anglo-American subordination Japanese power in the Far East, 98 she similarly sought a subordination of China herself. In the Asiatic brotherhood with China which Japan proclaimed she cast herself in the role of a very senior brother. It was 2 brotherhood which on the one liliand had no place for the Western interlopers, and as fundamentally on the other hand demanded a China strong enough only to. assist in the exclusion of the West but not suff dently strong to exclude Japan herself, Japanese Acquiescence 'The period of Japanese ncquiescener during the ten" years' from the Washington treaties to the Manchu-ign invasion of 1931 had been mere ly an expedient temporization of destiny, bequeathed of the gods. to he the' supreme power in Aria and in the Western Pacific. The "positiveness" of a Baron Tanaka and not the acquiescent passivity of " Shide-hero was truly representative of her foreign policy in China. The status quo of Anglo-American naval equal ty, if not actual dominance, in the Western Paeifle and along the free~ board "of China. which Japan con-feeded in the Washington treaties did represent the true spirit of Japanese foreign policy, which had inal truer exemptifieation in the capitalization of the war engrossment fof the Western Powers by an attempt terms of "Dhe Twenty-One Demands" to subordinate China ones sand for all should interpolate here that it is vot an aim of this memorandum indict the foreign policy of Japan of any other nation. "Certainly It does purport to be an indictment of [Japan from the subjective view pol of a Western writer naturally' dis-Fosed (be prejudiced against any subordination anywhere of his own country's power. It is an objective presentation, and a such it alms 10] depict the "inevitability" and' "naturatness" from the Japanese view= point of Japan's dual aims, in. "her own geographical sphere". to do ate China and exclude or subordinate Western power.
What Japan therefore regarded as being both natural and proper on their part, in the concession of the Western Powers to China's legitimate aspirations, she in no wise similarly, esteemed her own appropriate role. Accordingly, in the International Set loment of Shanghai. where the cream fof the modernist and nationalist Chinese intelligentsia was located, while Japan enjoyed the spectacle of progressive rectification of the Fesition of dominance of Western as oyninst Chinese public influence and (crest, she watched with apprehen-sivaness the growth of Chinese power in relation to herself. In the pursuit of her dual alms of weakening both Western influence and China at the same time, she was forced into the Ineongruous role of repudiating the ten liberalism of British and American policy, as it expressed itself in swiftly increasing concessions 10 [Chinese aspirations to a greater tmportance inthe municipal polities of {the International Settlement, and of Jebarging that such policies involved betrayal of (traditional foreign poll-cies in the Settlement.
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