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MIRROR OF WORLD
OPINION
THE WAY TO PEACE
Chances for the United States gov-
JAPAN'S CHINA POLICY
being
ernment to restore peace to Europe If Chinese interests are
or minus, except neglected and actually suppressed
are
zero
in the sense of serving as the agency since the establishment of the puppet through which the basic factors re-
government, foreign interests have moving the causes of war may oper- not fared better. They are hampered ate. The American people and their not only by the Japanese monopolies
government are utterly helpless in dealing with the force which set the war machines in motion, the same forces which have to be disposed of before the basis of lasting peace is
established.
on transportation, finance, and trade channels but also by the difficulty of
maintaining any kind of contact with the authorities. When complaints are
made, the complainants are often re- ferred by the Japanese military to However, repeated and continuing the Puppet government, and by this American efforts to turn the situation back again to the Japanese. Nobody toward peace are not out of place, is
Neither are they deserving of any- thing except warm approval of all the
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responsible. The anti-British movement, which has been stirred up by the Japanese, and the resulting expulsion of British missionaries from
North China is a case in point. When world sincerely desiring peace on the the missionaries protested to the local lasting basis of international justice. Chinese officials, they were told pri- All the United States can do now is viately that they, the officials, did not to provide the agency through which approve of their bad treatment but the natural forces can work, when or that they were powerless, and were if they are ready to work. Only the advised to address themselves to the super-optimist can believe that they local office of the Japanese gendar- are ripe for much effective activity meric. The latter, when ap- right now, but it is most important proached, declared that they can have a prepared place in or through which they can operate give any assistance, as it was a purely
when the time comes.
they that
were
in turn
unable to
Chinese, spontaneous movement with
It is possible for the trial balloon- which they could not interfere with- ists of the peace-promoting camp to out infringing on Chinese sovereignty. bungle their efforts and to do positive It is generally recognised by for- harm. Washington has to take that eigners of all nationalities
movement, anti-British into consideration, undoubtedly has.
or
TOMMY ATKINS
that the
which is
against missionary, educational,
and medical institutions, is merely the thin end of the wedge. The same fate, in the long run, awaits all foreign inter- ests, then plain fact being that Japan- to policy is drive very kind of foreign activity, both commercial and philanthropic, out of North China as completely as,
ese
The situation which is covered by directed with quite especial virulence many layers of political window- dressing and sealed with military cen- sorship has to be radically different from that which appears on the sur- face if the basis is of real peace present
near. But even on this point the uncertain- ties are enormous and it is nothing but bad business to surrender to the ar- guuments of the de- featists. Washing- ton is fully justified the in acting on one-out-of-a-mil- lion chance, acting in such way as to leave the door of opportunity open
to peace when the forces which make
The name is Tommy Atkins. It dates from 1815. In that momen- tous year, which saw the Hun- dred Days and the final banish- ment of NapoleonTM - Bonaparte, something extremely unimportant happened which was, however, also to claim the fame of memory. Bamples of a new form of pay sheet were issued to the troops, carefully filled in to show the unschooled soldiers just how they were to keep their books. samples bore, along the dotted line, the words, "Thomas Atkins, X, his mark." In such circum- stances was the British "Tommy" christened, and It is perhaps typical of him and his methods that the name which was, after all, nothing but a symbol of an uneducated fighting man, was adopted to become a symbol of the very opposite J, A. May.
The
or even more com- pletely than, they have succeeded in doing in "Man- chuguo."
Two tendencies anyhow, seem per- fectly clear so far as the Japanese there are concern- ed. First, the policy
for war are at the point of readiness of an independent North China has to seek a way out.
of new central government, the inclu- sion would be purely nominal; in all matters of importance, such as flag, finance, economics, and foreign rela-
now gained the day, for good and all. The United States is not and never Even in the most unlikely event of has been neutral in thought. For that the Japanese military clique there reason the efforts at peace are rather agreeing to come in with some kind strained as viewed from the side of the line on which the American sym- pathies are conspicuous by their ab- sence. The dictators' camp naturally disapprove of peace efforts which are acceptable to the democracies, but tions North China will remain com- Second, the eventually the point must be reached pletely independent.
these Puppet government will not gain any at which both sides welcome
more power in the future, though it
efforts..
The fact that practical reasoning will doubtless be retained as a useful behind which its Japanese tells us that such a point apparently facade and most probably has not yet been masters will continue to exploit the reached, nor closely approached, is no country in their own interests, in the reason for delaying efforts to give the
comforting belief that this facade is forces of peace opportunity to operate deceiving both the Chinese people and when they become ready,
relApparently the statements of the the Foreign Powers as to the true democratic" "filles fully appreciate the conditions in North China.-American motive behind the American efforts, “Manila Bulletin:""
Information Committee pamphlet.
Pa
Pa
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 22, 1940
A remarkable picture taken by a machine of the R.A.F. coastal command of a neutral ship sunk in the North Sea, with her survivors pulling away in a lifeboat. The plane wa
able to direct rescuers to the posi tion of the boats. (By Air Mail. Copyright).