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JAPAN'S POLICY IN CHINA
The failure of the smuggling policy in North China to produce economic gains to Japan over a period of time, the dispatch of a
of friendly mission Japanese business men to the Continent, the denial by the Minister of War before the Diet that the Japanese army has a Continental policy are still other clues of a moderated China policy on the part of the Japanese Govern- ment. This moderation began Despite occasional independent while Mr. Koki Hirota was still acts by the Japanese military in Premier, but it is being greatly North China, indications of a accelerated under General Haya salutory change in Tokyo's shi and Mr. Sato, his Foreign policy towards China have be- Minister-
come too frequent to be over- The policy of the past few looked or to be regarded as tran-years has simply not worked. sient. Developments have caus- China, under Japanese pressure, ed the Japanese Government to has continued to wax stronger survey the field anew, mark and stronger from the political, where persistence would lead the military, and the economic them and to seek a new way to an establishment of easier and more normal relations, to mea- sure against the complete failure of the policy of the last two
years.
standpoints, and China to-day could give a good account of her- self in warfare. Moreover, the spectre of Soviet Russia, with its now vast armament and fighting machine in Siberia, is a constant threat. The Japanese Govern- ment fears that if it takes strong action against China it will find the Soviet Union against Japan.
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What has provoked the change is difficult to ascertain, but that a new attitude governs Tokyo to-day there can be no doubt. The situation is closely
The capture of Chiang Kai- analysed by a correspondent of shek by the "Young Marshal,' the "Manchester Guardian," who Chang Hsueh-liang, just before draws particular attention to a Christmas and the latter's de- recent statement by General mand for war on Japan and ac- Hayashi, the new Premier. Gen-tive co-operation with Moscow eral Hayashi was asked point- thoroughly frightened Tokyo. blank from the floor of the The support secretly given to the House of Representative as to his Inner Mongols in their war with Government's attitude towards Chinese forces in Suiyuan was the now famous "three prin- almost immediately withdrawn, ciples" of Japan's China policy and the Mongols collapsed. The enunciated by Mr. Hirota while Chengtu and the Pakhỏi "inci- still Minister of Foreign Affairs dents" involving the murder of last year. Those "three prin- Japanese subjects at the hands ciples" are so vague in wording of Chinese mobs were settled as to cover almost anything and speedily with Nanking, and this have never been accurately de- despite the fact that Japan had fined, but in essence they would previously insisted that they giye Japan something resem- could not be settled apart from bling a "free hand" in China. what Tokyo called "fundamental Premier Hayashi's reply was issues” in China that is, the equally vague in wording, but its "three principles" and all they meaning was perfectly clear to involve. The stabilisation of the those accustomed to the indirect | Chinese currency has now to be statements of Oriental diplo-accepted as a fact, although matists. General Hayashi said: Japan believed this to be impos- "We consider them proper, but sible and long refused to recog- we have different views with re-nise it. The recently announced gard to their application"--that British nayal building pro- is to say, they have either been gramme, which is interpreted as definitely abandoned or indefin- ja decided strengthening of Bri- itely shelved. By wording his tish naval forces in Pacific answer in this way Premier waters, undoubtedly plays its Hayashi sayed Japan from “loss part also in influencing Japanese of face" and gave China nothing policy. The almost world-wide tangible to which it might later reactions to the ideological pact hold the Japanese Government, signed with the German Govern- Premier Hayashi was executing ment against the Comintern did a strategic retreat.
much to sober Japan's hotheads. There are other clear indica- Japan, of course, is in an un- tions that Japan is reorienting stable condition at the moment, its policy towards China, but and it is impossible to foresee there is always a possibility that even the immediate future clear- at any time the army extremistsly. The struggle between the may step in and force the Gov-pro and anti Fascists is far from ernment to return to the old ended, and until Japan has gone policy of the mailed fist — to be through new elections, and shaken if not actually used. The made its definite choice between withdrawal of the four principal democracy of a sort or a Japan- Japanese firebrands from China ese version of Fascism it is idle within the past year is one such to predict what Japanese policy sign. These were Major General will ultimately be.