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the, of stmteglats who are in tharge of the Japanese campaign In. China and of the enormous power and efficiency of the war machinery they control.
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perlodle long spells of furlough, and the white man who has once allowed himself to "go yellow" is shunned by by them as one who has been sirick- en with on Infectious disense.
1937.
Some people believe the influence to be latent in the soil, ofhers in tho climate, or, and more correctly, that I have little doubt, however, that......... ht Japan's militarists
"it" cummates from the minds of the greater foresight and less
people. But there is nothing that But when the day. heads they would have pondered Japan's forces
arrives and enn be pointed to as essentially wrong much longer before they plunged through all organised Hnes of resis-
are able to bicak or evil in Chinese mentality.
On the contrary it is most like- their country into a conflict the tance in Ching, that country will still able, even admirable. And that is ultimate resalt of which is still for be for from brought to her knees, just where the anger lies, for it is bryond the horizon
To do that Japan' must prepare to not healthy for more virile, asser- Presumably Japan believed that the face the task of conquering the whole tive, and combative
peoples when conflict would be short and decisive, country and subduing its countless they learn to appreciate the placid indifference aid easily attained con- and that China would speedily yield ions of inhabitants. Ruth concessions se so desired in impertatist Alms
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The "yellow perll" is a threat use. A Constant Irritant
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So it is with nations. Japan has Chinese who have made close study made her extraordinary rise to world of the peculiar psychology of their power not because of any overween 1 am under to delusions as to the wn race is known to be no more ing persuasion that she is better and incomparable superiority of the Japa- than a most fantastic bogy.
more enlightened than other nations, be The Chinese may Pse military fores over those of
conquered but because she has been conscious China. It is overwhelming.
agnin as they have been in the past. of inferiority. but their
will never As one who lived a good many
conquerors
Nowadays she may try to hide it mould seurs in Ching at a time when an adventurous people they would have but that inferiority complex is still aggressive, behind protestations of boostfulness, was overrun by her own military bandits, what I marvel at is the way man-power could be made into a at this moment driving her forward Betr unlimited there, an irritant and stimulus that is in which those rag-tag free-booters lave kalt themselves together before mece to the rest of the world.
China in With the Japanese-should their upon her adventure
If Japan, after invasion of China. Such unity can hardly have been Island empire prove capable of stand- could convey to a subject people who spontaneous: and yet if it was not in the economie strain that will be outnumber her by five to one, some how came if that dapun seemingly put upon it before conquest of China of the galling energy that has spurred was unaware of the important changes effected their fate will be the bee forward, the menace to the rest effected in the last few years?
the of the world would be very real.
common for.
the them into
to become before
same as that which overlook
It seems pretty clear that, some- Tartara, Mongols, and Manchus, and but the chances are all the other body has bungled, and that Japan Cathay will absorb her invaders and way and in favour of China con- has set her hand to a task of far more them of their strength. formidable dimensions than she bar- Mysterious influence gained for.
Just when and where China's mili- lary resistance is going to crumble no one as yet can say.
Everyone who has lived in China The debacle is aware of this amazing influence. may come at any moment," or the Europeans who take up their life
ut may be gradual over a period of work in the country safeguard them- many months.
selves us far as possible against it by
municating to her conquerors that soporifle of superiority which reduced the Tartors and the Manchus to opathy and softness.
Though we are not, likely to live to see its fulfilment, I fully belleve that if once Japan accomplishes a conquest of Chiria that achievement will spell her own doom,
Dabblers in Foreign Affairs
DUMOUR was fitting around that Parlament is to be called to- gether at an early date in const-
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By "An Old Stager"
"I did not attach credence to the ggestion. The National Govern- ment has not shown itself prone to advertise the gravity of emergencies, and the assembling of Parliament at short natice would most undoubtedly have had a disturbing effect on the slight domestic mischance might at commercial and dustrial nerves of any moment sweep it aside and place the country, as well as tending to in- in its stead those very men who have crease the tension fell upon the Con- been most outspoken in their hatred of all that Nazism and Fascism stand Moreover, the Cabinet in the past for. has shown itself quite prepared to
linent.
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people.
has been too much of this blekering during recent years, and has been
dole, great disservice to the case of
parliamentary guvernment.
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cular remember an occasion a few years back when the late Sir Austen Chamberlain took the House and the
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renders Jt
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arouse -feelings towards us in the below the gangway, Sir Austen, in minds of other nations.
the the harsh tones and with that ex- And futility of such debates is positively cathedra manner so churacteristic of painful.
his oratory, admonished Germany of In support of this belief I contend No Foreign Secretary can be ex- the certain consequences of her dis- that, whilst world conditions have pected just because a motion for the regard to treaty. limitations upon her certainly not improved since the be- reduction of his salary has been put armaments, and warned this country ginning of August, the nations of the down by a querulous Opposition, to against plecing further faith in Ger- world are regarding those conditions come down to the House and map out man protests of goodwill. shade less of mutual distrust than a the lines along which he intends to not Sir Austen's sentiments with greater equanimity and with a before it just exactly what are to be It is not to the point whether or fow months earlier.
ronduct delicate International nego- shared 'and approved by many of his countrymen. The point is that they
And that, I am convinced, is largely liations.
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due to our Government being able No muller how roundly may be ought not to have been, voiced across to pursue its rightful rolo in the condemned the old system of secret the floor of the House of Commons leadership of international affairs diplomacy there can be no hard and by an elder statesman and by one unembarrassed by the constant de- fast rules upon which a Government, who was actually an ex-member of mands of Parliament to place ita of whatever complexion, can determ- the Cabinet of the day. cards on the table, and unrefuled by ine its rélations with foreign Powers. The speech was, from a journalistic the loud-voiced: déclarations of min- There is always the other fellow to point of view, "good. copy." It was jority spokesmch that it is slot carry- consider.
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In these days of absolute dictator a Foreign. Secretary can no more which have little sympathy and less great publicity. In States ships it stands to reason that Buch declare in advance to Parilament understanding for the immense free- countries Germany and Italy far what his next move is going to be dom of our Parliamentary system it more attention than is merited is ale than a chess-player can brnounce was deemed incredible that Sir Aus- tached to the often ill-considered what he intends to do until his adver- ten was merely voicing his own pri- pronouncements of Opposition spokes- sary has moved his piece across the vate convictions "oft his own bat," men, who are far more anxious to board.
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