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MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
SNARE AND A
DELUSION
policy of idealistic diplomacy. Just as in Europe the Versailles, structure has been scrapped, so in these Pacifc In fact it might be well for Ameri- areas now there is being established cans to stop talking about neutrality; a new structure covering political, for them the word has now become military and economic
activities.
If
a snare and delusion. It has led too the United States wants conclusion of many people to believe that freedom a new commercial pact with Japan, its from the world's troubles can be won basic note must be this new structure simple by passing a law. It has surrounding
Pacific."Nichi- sanctioned the export of arms just so Nichi."
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NEW FAR-EASTERN DEFENCE PLANS
long as war has not been officially de- clared. It has developed a strange attitude which regards the export of arms as immoral or dangerous but not the export of equally vital supplies such as oil. The word has given es- capism a sham refuge while hiding the basic issue and delaying a clear-cut, When all the reinforcements from: responsible decision.
India have reached Malaya-the gar- The present struggle is not over rison in Singapore and the outlying. neutrality. In too large a measure it areas will number about 12,000 men. is over
It presidential prestige.
The disposition of our strength in should be over what the United States the Far East will in future be based. can do to keep the peace and keep out on Singapore. In case of emergency of war. No one..can object to mea in China troops will be sent from the sures designed to prevent entangle- Singapore Garrison and Singapore in. ment should war come, but an obses- turn will be reinforced from India.. sion with "negativity" mislabeled This system will save much delay and neutrality, should not side-track the add to the strategic and military value primary positive purpose to prevent of Singapore. war.-"Christian Science Monitor."
IN IT, TOO
With Australia and New Zealand willing to help, Australian and New Zealand soldiers may eventually form part of the Garrisons of Singapore and
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THE FUTURE OF
Do not worry unduly about the American isolationists.posevelt will Hong Kong.-"Yorkshire Post." probably beat them. If he does not it still does not matter. If war came, America would be in it-on the side of Democracy, protecting it for America as well as for us. This is America's problem as much as any- body else's. There is no distance in
If China proves victorious, it is cer-- dreams. Even 3,000 miles is not
tain that all the old Concessions and enough to exclude America from a dream of world domination.-"Sunday some preservation of their rights
foreign privileges must disappear. Yet is Dispatch."
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HARSH FACTS
· SHANGHAI
surely due to the foreigners who have made Shanghai the greatest, most im- portant city in Asia, and have held the
Harsh circumstance, and not any fort there throughout so many weary' subtle British propaganda, is impelling months. the United States to take what the Many minds are beginning to ad- Administration prefers to call "par- dress themselves to thoughts of how allel action" with Britain and other the war may be ended. When it is: European democracies in international Shanghai will be only one of many pro- affairs. The days
of American iso- lation, it
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are over. The des- tinies of a world in which invention has annihilated distance have be- come too closely knit for even the most remote and self-contained of nations to declare its unconcerri with what happens be- yond its borders.
ADMIRATION
"No newspaper proprietor, can ever have a holiday. I came here on vacation, but have spent most of my time studying the International situation. So far ao England is concernéd, my main reaction lá of admiration for the unified state of the coun- try.
Eugene Neyer, Editor "Washington Post.”
blems, but it will certainly be not. the least impor-- tant and in many ways may be a: standard for the solving of others; It is earnestly to be hoped that the Powers concerned in Shanghai's des- tinies will not wait till the last moment before deciding what is just and, proper
Just as Great Britain's dislike of Con- for them.-"Great Britain And The tinental commitments has had to yield East.”
the
to the grim logic of events, so United States is being forced, much against its will, actively to interest itself in European and Asiatic develop- ments. The great President is possibly of hik in advance of the majority
- as of the courage of his actions, there is no doubt at all. Mr. Roosevelt speaks in ringing accents for that America which sees in the challenge to democracy in the old world a menace to its survival in the new, and now- here has his warning voice been heard with deeper satisfaction than in a bur dened and anxious Britain.—“Sydney Morning Herald.”
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ASTONISHING THING
It is but natural that the Japanese military should resent the failure of the Tokyo conference to give them what they desire, and it has been re- countrymen in his strong foreign ported that they contemplate severer policy, but of the clarity of his vision, actions against the British Concession than has been taken up to the pre- sent. The danger is that this anti- British campaign may get just as much out of, hand as that which pre- ceded the Boxer outbreak, and if un- fortunate results are the sequel the Japanese alone will be responsible. It is an astonishing thing that the Japan- ese have, during all their years of knowledge of China, not learned that this form of activity is the most dan- gerous even to themselves, and that they are establishing precedents for similar movements against themselves at some time in the future. The danger which is all the greater that with the exten- so seriously regarded "the actual sit- sion of the campaign more foreigners uation" at that time now seemingly is may become involved than already demanding the application of the old have been, and, with all the reckless- pact concluded some twenty years ago ness with which the Japanese are be- to the new actual situation, quickly having, it cannot be believed that they developing in the Far East. This self- wish to run the risk of increasing the ish attitude on the part of the Wash- enmity which they have shown them- Ington Government is evidently far selves, past, masters in the art of rais- removed from America's espoused ing.-"North China Daily News.” –
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“ACTUALITIES”
The American Government