Mr. Fleisher believes that Japan has undergone a complete change of foreign policy, which he em phasized strongly by saying '"Probably the one phase of political conditions in Japan which is the least; realized in China, although well credited both in the United States and Europe is Japan's complete change of foreign policy. The present policy is to accord as far as possible with England and the United States and to gain the friendship of China. The Japanese Government has learned that it is to their interest to do so; that more can be gained through friendship with China than through threats."
As proof of their good intentions, Mr. Fleisher cited the instance of} the Japanese withdrawal from Shantung and Siberia. He stated} that the Siberian venture cost more! than Y.1,000,000,000, and that Japan also sacrificed more than 1,600 lives and that all they reaped was ill will. He said, "Tt is true that Japan holds the northern half of the island of Saghalien, as retribution for the Nikolaievsk massacre, but it is only a question of time when they will have to withdraw unconditionally, since Russia will enter into no negotiations prior to their withdrawal, and M. Joffe, the Soviet Envoy, holds the trump card, "There ig a limit, however, to Japanese concession and this ' regards particularly the Liaotung peninsula. They are determined that the treaty extending the lease for 90 years shall hold. China is not in a position to force them out
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