PACIFIC CONTROL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10406, 29 August 1911, Page 6

PACIFIC CONTROL.

SUN AND STARS NEVER QUARREL.

Here is an extract, from a brilliant speech by the Japanese Ambassador to the United States —Baron Uchida—which ■ has attracted much attention in New York: —

■ "Gentlemen," he said,, " have you ever considered there two flags, +ho flags of our countries? Have you failed to note that the patriot fathers who designed them have made it , impossible for us to fight? . "There have, been wans, of the Cross and the ■'Crescent,' of the Red Rose >artd the White, but the Sun and Stars have never quarrelled; in their courses, neither shall tlje two flags which bear those celesial emblems ever be carried £t the heads of hostile armies. It>is unthinkable, impossible. They talk of-rivalry/of-control of the Pacific; as if an ocean whose area were greater than tha't of all the continents combined could ever be controlled by any one Power. My pepple may be ambitions, but they, have no ambition so great as that.* No, our ambition is not to see our flatg , 'dominate the Pacific,' 'but to see the' firmament that arches over tihat ocean hung with the mingled splendors f our' two banners —the star-spimgled ensign of America and the sun-flag of Japan—lit with morning effulgence and jewelled with starry radiance. Sooner shall the day and the night fly to arms to decide who should rule the Sea of . Peace than the two great nations that dwell on its opposite shores fall out over the destinies assigned to each by Nature's laws. / "There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon, and one star differeth from another in glory, but there is room in the ample gulfs of the sky—there is room," concluded Baron Uchida, "in the spacious purposes of history--ffl-r. the. glory of all'.' . These words, : spoken at a banquet in New York given in celebration of the ratification of the new treaty between the United States and Japan, ought to put to shame the exclamations of short-sighted jingoes, says the World's . Work. The Ambassador Pointed to the two flags that hung behind the toast-master's chair when he made his speech.