JAPAN’S PATIENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1921, Page 9

JAPAN’S PATIENCE.

RESENTMENT CONTROLLED. London, Feb. 14. Discussion on the White Australia question continues daily, and is constantly extending its area. The general tone of the newspapers is strongly sympathetic, but warnings of the difficulties of such a policy in the immediate future are frequent. Mr. H. Mullet Merrick, in a letter to the Times based on 10 years’ residence in Japan, declares that the Japanese Government, Press, and people are whole-heartedly in favor of a renewal of the alliance with Britain, and will not understand a refusal.

They feel that the white races, including the British, are showing increasing hostility and resentment at the presence of Japanese outside their own islands, and believe that this is all due to economic jealousies. “Japan is still patient,” says the writer, “but how long will she be content to be called one of the five Powers, and yet denied legitimate expansion by emigration and racial equality? If the Poweri? continue to pen an overwhelming population in small islands they will inevitably produce another Germany.”