FEAR OF WAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 317, 2 September 1932, Page 4

FEAR OF WAR

IN FAR EA &- ■ |cc JOURNALIST'S IMPREI OF THE PRESEhl POSITION 1 « 1R: JAPAN AND U.slss The following article M situation in the Far Eajihc particular interest at igSt; sent time in view of thegar ing tension betweett JaM^e China. It has been M:m written for the "Mornimer by M. Joseph Major, aS11. journalist who recentlJrT^ some months on the teacligxc of St. Patrick's College, Ma/ ton and.spent some time a 11 rua. M.; Major recen»e^ bean . appointed secretJf11. the Jp.panese Esperanti^1 ety and editor of tHe anto Monthly.. In addition duties, h'e will take over : tion on the editorial "Oomoto" a well-knowp J * daily. M. Major, prior to pointment, undertook a si»S. lecture tour of Japan- ^ pressions of the relati tween Japan and the Unit es, although scarcely rea have the value of acqu with the facts and a franl ment of the position as t"h • i * JB sees it. Ever since the beginning tilities in Manchuria and ^ there has been a secpet ap] \ ' between Japan and the Unit • ' those two powerful naval ] 0 the Far East. State Secret 3 , son holdly branded Japan a; n violator, declaring that An . 0 never recognise the new stat churia, which he called a ] 3 Japanese action. After t 0 strange to say, Colonel Sti kept an ominous silence. j_j What may we inf er from t of American diplomacy? vious enough that the Unit is not determined to swalloi of Japanese refusal without test. Whatever be the decis A League concerning the matte . America nor Japan have sai J word about it.[ The Japanes; impression that th'e United , preparing for direct actioB|. their country. And, indeed, the forces of the U.S. fleet Mr moved from the Atlantic toS^fic. There have been naval ras on the Pacific which havelT ped for several months! Any||1( will see that the American* j on the lookout in the PacificaL are the Japanese too. Therjj talk ahout airplanes and M fences in the Japanese paSi now. Out of many signs, Japanese papers conclude tlim? between the two Powers is ijt evitable. I . ■ .li The Real Reasonsj® What are the real reasoit j situation? Economic com® some people say "p'sycholoa| sons," say the others. We arffl to believe that the latter e Neither America nor Japan c just now the ruinous,. costs t Both would lose more tfian ti possibly win through victory the, European Powers in t war. The above-mentioned reasons are the followin an objects against any intf of the United States in th'e 1 As a matter of fact, the Unit are not members of the L Nations, neither have they vd interests in China (their int Japan are far more importai reason for their interventic emotional one too. They feef perfections of their Kellogg 1 viding for no sanctions agaift sible aggressor. They do not let the Freneh be justified, \ always repeated that such i of paper without any sancti! mere comedy. They want that they are going to do si about it. Unfortunately fS Japan is not willing to let thtS This young Power of the. EaS to consider itself as a commgj highly civilised people, cons^l its strength and of its righfj is what the Americans ean/1 Questions of race are being p ward and that is too muehll emotional people of the Stajf the meantime — and we must / state that — Japan has kept From the thousands of Chine; in the big cities of her islanL single one has been molestef the hostilities, not even sped the friendly treatment of i residentsyrfn sharp contrast \ ill-treatment suffered by Japa, t sidents in the States. L, Spetre of War In some international quaP Tokio there is talk that ifj would defeat America, as she^ feated Russia — that would be -j lesson to the proud politics Washington and the ,beginnin/ cessation of all war debts and | tions, in one sentence, the er, slump all over the world. | Meanwhile Japan does not t/ provocative action, well knovi } the risks of a conflict with th( « might ha,ve enormous conse - For the time being, Japan is , expectative; she has not eve:' nised the new state of Manchy Pi'of. Nitobe, one of the leadincl of th'e Japanese press, has br to the United States to establ - ter understanding between t peoples. The big papers of 1 have also checked the-prov.ocai of their editorials. But we J think that the present stands final one. The, spectre of a wu is hovering over the glooraJi of the Pacific. ^