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PEIPING AND PACIFIC PACT
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pendence of China is con The China Mail sequently just as much an in-
ternational issue as it was Ninety-Second Year of Publication 1921, and experience has shown 3A Wyndham Street, Hong Kong that any new agreement to
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achieve its purpose would need London Office:
to be much more conclusive than Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. the treaty made at Washington.
Notice To Contr itors.
In addition to the revival of these All communications. Intended for two fundamental problems, a publication should be addressed to number of new political and stra- the Editor, and be companied by tegic factors now affect the re- the Writer's Name and Address, lations of Pacific Powers. Rus- not necessarily for insertion but sia's reappearance in the Pacific rantee of good faith. as a naval Power, and the de- Subscription Rates.
velopment of Vladivostok as great aerial and naval base right at Japan's "back door," have ren- dered Japan's unassailable posi- tion in home waters less certain. Japanese expansion is a source of anxiety to the Dutch. Econo- Hong Kong, Saturday, July 10, 1937. mic penetration is being pursued with such vigour by Japanese in- terests that the people of the Netherlands Indies are openly apprehensive, and they a
are de- |veloping defences of strategic More than 15 years have pass-
centres, especially their oilfields, ed since nations directly inter- as speedily as possible. A record ested in Pacific affairs signed appropriation for defence treaties at Washington to
also recently considered neces- move the causes and minimise sary by Siam. The fears of these two countries would need the possibilities of war. Those pacts were the Four-Power to be relieved, and the inclusion Treaty between Great Britain, of Holland and Siam would con- the United States, France, and sequently be most desirable
French Japan, which replaced the form any new Pacific pact. er Anglo-Japanese alliance, and
interests in Asia and the Pacific the Washington Naval Treaty, to
have not materially changed since to which the same Powers and 1921, and French adherence Italy subscribed. The Naval an agreement would be equally
desirable. Treaty would hardly have been
The array of conflict--- possible without the preliminary ing interests to be reconciled ap- signing of the Four-Power pears a formidable one. Treaty, and it is interesting and if these obstacles could be sur- perhaps significant that the way
mounted, and the Pacific Powers was paved for that by the de- induced to sign a non-aggression liberations of the Imperial Con-pact, it now seems very far from ference which met in London in probable that any of them would the middle of 1921. Recollec-accept the guarantees necessary tion of that fact possibly ac- to make such a pact of any
Neither the counts for the hope that the Im-Value.
League perial Conference just recently Covenant nor any of the other concluded may prove the prelude relevant treaties saved China from invasion, and any Pacific to a new Pacific pact.
pact that omitted to provide for · Since 1921 momentous politi-automatic assistance to a victim cal and strategic changes have of aggression would only serve affected the relations of Pacific to lull peaceful nations
înto a Powers, but the present situa- state of false security. tion is not so different in essen- tials from that of the period of post-war stabilisation. Then, as gers with which the situation is now, a costly naval race was im- pregnant has been furnished in minent. Great Britain, Japan, the last few days in the Peiping
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ྩོམ་ ཉམ་ It matters not, for our and the United States were plan-area. ning the construction of fortified purposes, whether the blame be to rest with the Japanese bases in dangerous proximity to held
or with the 29th Army, except each other's possessions, and these bases spanning the vast insofar as this involves the main Japan- distances of the Pacific threaten- consideration, that if the ed in time to make naval conflict ese soldiery had not been carry- possible, though not inevitable. ing out manoeuvres in territory Similar developments are in which is Chinese, in a region progress to-day, and the intrusioned as an important Chinese gar
which they were well aware serv- of aircraft has introduced an-
Even
A vivid example of the dan-
have
could rison centre, there other factor contributing to 2 been no incident and no clash. sense of distrust and insecurity. The other great issue tem-
porarily resolved at Washington Palestine Partition
was
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the future integrity of
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China. Japan had been pursu- The Palestine Report has had ing a policy that China and other a better reception than was an- Powers considered a menace to ticipated. Both the Zionists and the territorial integrity of China the Arab Council have comment- and to the trade and investments ed bitterly on the partition of other Powers in China. A scheme, condemning it heartily similar situation › now exists. and yet in terms suggesting re- Quite apart from the separation cognition of its inexorable logic. of Manchukuo from China, and That is likely to be the determ- the virtual exclusion of foreign ining factor in the long run. The trade and investment in that scheme is not put forward “as part of the country, the northern ideal. It is not recommended. provinces of China, as now de as providing either community fined, are under Japanese milit- with all that they might claim, ary domination. This has pre-almost legitimately. But it does vented the Chinese authorities offer the happiest compromise from controlling smuggling on a between two apparently irrecon- vast scale, which affects o other cilable viewpoints. The opposition Powers whose capital invest- will probably narrow itself down ments in China also compete un to detail in partition, the main fairly with imports from other principle being accepted.