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HE CHINA TAIL, APRIL 12, 1939.
Japan Builds a Navy
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Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 12, 1939
CAN CANADA BE
NEUTRAL?
Japan's announced intention of attempting to build its navy up to equality with the American is one of those sobering develop- ments so common in the world to-day which speak for them- selves. Impressive arguments are offered in every world capital to show that the responsibility rests with someone else. Japan justifies this latest decision the ground of American naval expansion. Washington justifies its expansion programme on pre- vious Japanese expansion. In Europe the same vicious circle prevails 'as the arms race mounts to an intense pitch.
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The new naval race can main- ly be dated from the launching of the German pocket-battleship Deutschland in 1931 and from the efficient manner in which Japan kept building to the full legal treaty lift in the days when there was a treaty, while the United States and Great Britain lagged. During the past few years the United States has been steadily catching up, while Britain has suddenly entered in- to naval building with a burst of energy.
Who is to blame does- n't matter much now. The race is on. Nonation feels it dare lag behind. This is at once a product and a cause of mounting.world: tension. One ray Two Canadian politicians, Mr. become an unendurable strain to of hope is that the pace must soon George Heon, a French-speaking the weaker. When it does, com- Conservative, and Mr. Lacroix, a French-Canadian Libéral, have itself in a new willingness to con- mon sense will probably reassert recently voiced in an extreme form the intense desire for peace naval potential of the pace-mak-
sider limitation of arms. which animates every democratic country in the world to-dayer, Britain and the United States, Canada, says the first, should which seek to remake the out- far exceeds that of, the nations fight only in a war that directly lines of the world. It is extreme- threatens her territory, while Mr. doubtful that Japan can build Lacroix suggests that, in order to parity with the United States to avoid complication in Europand it is certain that it could ean affairs, Canada should de- not even approximate parity if clare herself an independent and American shipyards were stepped
up to full capacity.
neutral nation.
The
Under the free constitution of the Commonwealth no British Dominion can be involved in war save by its own deliberate deci-The Debates sion. Neither Canada, Australia, New Zealand, nor South Africă is The upward trend in the sales bound by any obligation, other of "Hansard," noted with par- than that of sentiment and self- donable pleasure by House of interest, to take any step what- Commons members in recent de- ever to aid the defence of Brit-bates, suggests that "the de- ain. Australia and New Zea- bates" may be recovering in some land, keeping one eye on Japan, degree their old importance in and South Africa, uneasy about the "files." Even if one. is old German colonial policy, have ob enough to remember the papers vious reasons urging them to of forty or fifty years ago, is the active support of Britain. But still with some surprise that one Canada is in different case. She turns over their pages and dis- might plausibly argue that it is covers how completely Parlia better to out clear from the Oldment used to dominate the news, World, and rely upon the security so that no discrimination seems of the New.
to have been necessary;
impor. But what would that security the speeches had to be reported, tant or trivial, interesting or dull, be worth, if democratic forces and members who can hope to were defeated in France and day for nothing more than that Britain as they have been defeat- they "carried on the debate" ed in Czecho-Slovakia and Spain? would get their half-column of Already the United States is close type. deeply concerned about ideologi- cal and trade threats to the Mona trial to young eyes.
Certainly those debates were roe Doctrine. In such circum- Moore tells us (in "Vale") how George stances the totalitarian powers' his father boasted that he understanding with Japan, and read the "Times” to his mother had their own zeal for expansion, in at breakfast when he was three, a world in which North America and if we share Mrs. Moore's in- might become the last refuge of credulity at least if was with the democracy, would be factors of debates that many young people. profound significance for both were expected to show off their the United States and Canada.
gaccomplishments. There There would be little purpo
rer suggestion in drawing attention to
still, in things if no constructive.
count of how Boyer used could be derived from
end the de- Happily, the Influence cratic solidarity in North ca, rightly and fearlessly still of paramount import
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