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MIRROR
OF WORLD OPINION
THE FUTURE
MORE EMPTY VICTORIES
in
Another stop-gap government Japan will do nothing more than sirability of delay as against imme- delay the basic decision. The de-
diate decision is explainable in terms of the outlook in connection with American relations. The temporizers and procrastinators in policy-making have plenty of opportunity to ask how anybody is to know that the force an end of the policy of dilly- United States will be tough enough to
dallying.
Modern human civilization cannot. be destroyed. One can destroy in one country, through war or revolu- tion, some of the remarkable monu- ments of human culture and civiliza- tion, ancient and modern; but the present organization of the world does not allow anybody to destroy human civilization. Human civiliza- tion is, first of all, the moral concep- tion of modern mankind, although including, of course, all economic values, all achievements of technolo gical progress, all great cultural monu- ments, buildings, cities, universities, libraries, museums of art and science; many of them are of inestimable value and could be destroyed in a great catastrophe. And that would be a characterizes the general course of loss which never could be replaced.
But that does not mean the de-
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The Japanese army has won quite as many battles in Tokyo as in China, but still is about as far from a vic- tory in the one place as in the other. The odds are that the present cabinet crisis will be another victory for the that army, but the kind of victory fefuses to turn into permanent suc- cess, the same kind of victory that
the war in China.--"Manila Bulletin.”
UNREST IN JAPAN
human spirit, in its great creative power, having saved in innumerable places the results of modern science, There can be no doubt that there technology, and progress-material are ugly signs of unrest in Japan and moral-will continue in any case among various sections of the peo- its great creative work. And we will ple and the fighting services. A noted rebuild, replace, reconstruct, and re- American correspondent who has create the so-called modern civiliza- lived in Japan for years privately told tlon in new forms, which probably friends here not long ago that he is cannot have at once the same value sensing to-day in Tokyo ominous and the same moral and material per- symptoms of restlessness and trouble fection as many of the destroyed which he has never before seen In monuments of the past. But the great his long residence in Japan. struggle in human society for the At the moment foreign correspon- continuation of past culture and civi- dents in Japan hesitate to put their lization and for future culture and fingers definitely on the source of this civilization will continue with the unrest and trouble, chiefly because, same noble, results and the
same like the Japanese, they are baffled by great success which is, again, in the the mass of significant yet unrelated nature of the human spirit and the symptoms. They agree, however, that human personality. Humanity will something is brewing in the Japanese simply continue its daily life, its political pot, but they are resigned to daily creation, and its daily fight for the fact that they will not know what new and better forms of human the future holds until that pot boils existence. Dr. Benes in "Democracy." over.-"China Press," Shanghai.
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GRAVE SITUATION
HITLER AND STALIN
to be handled by
Japan politically and economically," for this nation to emerge victorious in the titantic struggle already embarked upon in connection with the China campaign.
NOMINAL CLAIMS
All and every member of the na- When we think what the United tion talks of the gravity of the situa- States inwardly may be thinking of tion which Japan faces internally and and planning, we feel we shall as yet externally. The national opinion pre- have to experience many twists and valling is that the current year 1940 turns in our negotiations with the will see many more knotty problems United States till a satisfactory re-ad- justment of our International rela- tions is achieved. Certainly the Unit- ed States is de- manding as funda- mental terms cessary for adjust- ment of Japanese- American relations the maintenance of the principle of the Open Door in China and the re- spect of American rights and interests In the same; coun- try. But these are in reality only America's
ne-
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In these strange and sinister circumstances, the wisest policy must surely be watchfully to- await the tortuous developments of this unnatural alllanos, there la a proverb that when thieves- fall out, honest men may come by their own. But it would be too optimistic to hope that the great thieves of Europe will fall out, so long as thera romains ample booty for both, the chance of forming a great confederation ·of peace- loving powers to prevent aggres- alon was missed.---Mr. A. Duff Coopar.
Comfining the scope of our discus- sion only to finan- cial and economic questions, we shall And that we shall have to grapple seriously with that problem of State finances which is
manifest in the
·form: bf an ever nal" claims presented to Japan. increasing swelling of budgetary What the United States intends to amounts, with the national tax bur- achieve in China is unquestionably to check Japan's advance on to the China continent.
den of more than 720,000,000,000 heavily pressing upon the nation, while there are certain decidedly un- favourable, fa foreign trad
This is the reason why the United States is not satisfied as yet fully with Japan's proposal to reopen the living Yangtze to International shipping. All Unless Japan makes a wholesale re- small treat from the China contiment, there- tion fore, America will not be able to In- terest herself seriously in the desired tion ättempt to effect a satisfactory `ad- American
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