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antees to Poland, Greece, and Rumania, he said that if they were to be effective Britain must inspire conviction that "we mean to carry them through to the end." No doubt the German Government and its Axis-part- ners are seeking to test this re- solution, and in such effort the present Japanese -excesses may partly be explained. But Mr. Chamberlain's assertions of firm- ness must apply in Eastern Asia as in Europe; and there could be no greater damage done to Brit- ish policy and reputation through- out the world than a surrender to calculated Japanese truculence in this instance.
The British community at Tien- tsin, is being blockaded and sub- jected to disgraceful indigni- ties. Shrewd critics, whose view- point is not to be lightly dismiss- ed, have suggested that Japan may be deliberately playing for international intervention in or- der to bring about a peace con- Hong Kong, Thursday, July 13, 1939. ference. But it is more likely that the Japanese service chiefs are exasperated by their Govern- ment's decision not to join the Italo-German alliance, and that Whatever happens in the Tokyo they are trying to arouse anti- crisis, it is obvious that the British feeling in Japan as Japanese-created and fostered counter-attraction in a desper Anglo-Japanese tension cannotate internal situation, character- long continue without coming tolised by rising costs of living and a head. The reckless excesses of fears of currency inflation. Sur- Japanese navy and army com-render at this juncture to Japan- manders on the China coast and ese threats is obviously not to be in the International Settlements countenanced.
COMING TO A HEAD
is fast precipitating a crisis in
which the French, and American
Governments as well as the Brit-"By Any Other Name" ish, will be forced to counter-
action... It is highly significant Far from arousing any sombre that all anti-British actions are association by its title, the Eng-- instituted not by the Government lish town of Blackpool has be- in Tokyo, but by the Japanese come a triumphant symbol of naval and military officials on the holiday junketing. Nor, to the un-- spot. True, the Foreign Office parochial mind, does the name of spokesman seems ready to c con-Blacktown inflict any denigration firm and support the high-hand-upon its town and shire. But the ed action taken by the service local councillors have recently chiefs; but the provocation to the exhibited, rather suddenly- and British and other Governments curiously, a hypersensitive sense can only be enhanced by an atti- of the civic importance of nominal of tude in Tokyo which either, per- chiaroscuro, The fair name mits such licence in irresponsible the shire, they feel, is blackened servants, or suggests that it is by its "Blacktown." It is, one unable to control them. The offen-councillor discovered, "a ridicul-- ces are the more outrageous 'be-ous name" which serves to keep cause they proceed from an ori-people out of the district. It does ginal flagrant defiance of interna-not matter of course that the tional law, and a contempt not name is rich in historic associa merely for the Nine-Power, tions; these must be sacrificed to Treaty, but also for the
treaties with China under er the superior claims of business.
But if the Blacktown Shire Coun-
the Western Powers, in common cil feels that the need of a new with Japan, draw their rights of designation is so profoundly im- administration and trade in the portant, it is somewhat anomal- International Settlements. The ous that it should be prepared to Japanese action is being more devote no more magnificent sum and more clearly directed to than two whole guineas to a prize wards the expulsion of the West- for a "give-it-a-name" contest. If ern Powers from those Conces- the new name, which is to remove sions and Settlements, the den- the sinister bar to Blacktown's iat of their privileges as neu- progress, is evaluated at $2/2/ trals, the assertion against them what is the worth of the old one? of blockade rights in an unde-By changing its appellation, of clared war which makes blockade course, Blacktown would only be utterly illegal, and the suppres-following the modern fashion set sion of their shipping in the by the new titles of Iraq and China seas.
Iran, Istanbul and Oslo. Yet it
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