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The hypocrisy of non-interven, tion has been plain enough. Bot the responsibility lies not chiefly with Britain and France. If they have helped to provide a “front” for insincerity, the usefulness of that front should not be over- looked. It Has at least given the intervention-minded powers something to live up to, has driv- en their operations underground Hong Kong, Saturday, July 3, 1937. and made them less convenient

and has put them as it were the spot in the eyes of world

Lage

ON GUARD IN JAPAN opinion.

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Komackichi Nohara, in a new

Poor substitutes for honesty book, "The True Face of Japan,'

and for abidance by international says that the stoic quality dis- law? Of course, but only in the tinguishing the Japanese national same sense that an absence character is derivable from the war is apoor substitute for "educative earthquake.” For peace.

years past there has been some- thing seismic rumbling beneath political Japan. But the earth-

quake never happens, the coun-Two Hundred Lions try, with almost a French con- sistency, going from crisis ‹ to crisis, but without producing an irruption.

The British Office of Works anxious to dispose of two hun- dred lions, and each has a crown on his head and another under Another political crisis has his feet. They are the effigies been surmounted with the ap that topped the poles used in the pointment to the Premiership of Coronation decorations. Original Prince Fumimaro Konoye The as such ornaments would be, one Prince takes the place of General imagines a certain difficulty in Hayashi. At the elections in fitting them tastefully into the April, Hayashi was repudiated, average house. but refused to accept the people's

a

verdict till his position had be- You cannot keep a “pride” of come patently absurd. Once lions in the parlour and merely again there was

tiptoe a couple on the gateposts demand expectation of a Fascist coup, a carriage drive behind them. but the indications are now Even a single lion rampant about of. a peaceful change-over to the home, though “a very gentle totalitarianism rather than of a beast, and of a good conscience, seizure of power. Prince Konoye, as all of these undoubtedly “are, whose name means "guard, is would be apt to overawe his sur- now at the head of the move-roundings. Returning home to ment, the heir of a great name encounter such a phenomenon, in Japanese history. He has been one might react somewhat as the successful-in enlisting a Cabinet Duke of Wellington, is said to which gives some representation have done, on revisiting the field to the political parties which of Waterloo and seeing the lion swept Hayashi into oblivion. erected there, when he murmur- They in their turn have respond- ed sadly that it had “spoilt my ed surprisingly to the idea of battlefield. Fascist organisation.

Trade Barriers

It is significant, however, that Konoye, who is in his forties, is the protege of Prince Saionji, the last of Japan's Elder Statesmen. An aristocrat, with a line of Zeeland is returning from his The Belgian Premier, M. van

princely__ancestors, he shares

visit to Washington on a mission with his revered mentor a faith in democracy and for of world economic appeasement, that reason restraint even in and London, analysing the diplo- matic field finds conditions: “as totalitarianism may become pos-

well

expected." sible. Events have given the

as might be change of ministry more than The appeal of British liberant-for- usual interest and of more than a restoration of the open-door usual importance to the future of trade policy in the British colon Japan for there is just a pos- ies indicatessthat British public sibility that Japan may achieve opinion is behind a more liberal the best in democracy and Ras- trade polity cism by the compromise.

Bluff Tactics

In such an atmosphere as pre-

worldsa the wi [opera

vails in Europe over the events the key. in Spain, the efforts of Great

seems to

to hold height

Britain and France to preserve the Golden Ru trade.may the non-intervention

good.

arrange-{truly described as