A JAPANESE VIEW.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 71, 16 December 1937, Page 4

A JAPANESE VIEW.

" Tlie fOreign Powers deep down are displeased with Japan," says Commander Ishimaru in 'The Next World War,' "in regard to her recent adtions. Their attitude of observers does not mean that they approve, even tacitly of these actions. They are compelled to take this attitude simply on account of their attentions being absorbed by their own internal troubles. If the Japanese people sbould become over-confident because of their modest successes, they may wake up one day to find themselves facing the whole world as their enemy; and they will then meet the same-fate as did Germany. " Confidence in oneself and not being afraid of the world may be admirable enough, but if one becomes complacent and coneeited, y disregarding the just claims of others, and without actual power to sustain one's confidence, one is only courting collapse. So let us be prudent ! Even after victory keep a tight hold on yourselves ; and never forget that n&tional development and expansion depend not on one's fighting ability against other nations, but upon co-operating with them. Unless we can show creative and constructive talent in peaceI time, wjb cannot be cailed a great nation. A reallv great nation is a ^ natiog oreative jp peace as well as pffectiye in yar/t