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Guiding Factors In
U. S. POLICY IN FAR EAST
IGH authoritative quarters dis-statement of his 14 principles of can be kept aliv
the It may have of Japan's
H closed over the week end here peace programme, that they do not some value in Europe: where even. Blockade
allegedly "pacific"
State Depart-
that a close connection exists be apply to the Far East, would be to greater threats appear to impendment is not going to anticipate tween the vigorous policy which has sacrifice whatever influence for If it should be abandoned in the this development until it arises. It been evolved by the United States peace the United States might face of Japanese aggression it will probably be two months be- towards the Far Eastern crisis and otherwise have in Europe, it is felt would be of no value in the event of fore the Wichita can reach China German or Itahan aggression. waters and the whole situation may the disturbed situation in Europe. here.
In this connection it can be stat- have changed in the meantime. Limitations To Neutral Act Briefly stated, the Government
ed that American diplomacy sees
Neutrality Act And Trade position is this: While American
In taking this position American an increasing degree of co-operative
The State Department's prefer- Far Eastern policy is primarily con-
ence not to invoke the Neutrality" cerned with avoiding any retreat in diplomacy is acutely conscious of behaviorism on the part of Japan,
Act is due partly to a reluctance to the face of Japanese aggression the limitations of the Neutrality Germany and Italy.
a device for keeping the
U.S. Policy Summarise
impede the flow of commerce to the which would imply approval of that Act as aggression, it also has in mind.con- United States out of war. While it
The specific Far Eastern policy Far East, but even more to the fact stantly the implications of its at- might work in the event of a major titude towards Japan and Germany World War, it is recognised that which has been carefully developed that interference with that com- and Italy. Withdrawal before Ja-there is always danger of American with these European implications merce would undoubtedly bring it is felt that the chance of halting pan, it is felt, would encourage the involvement in any major world constantly in mind can be stated about formal and general war. And ambitions of Germany and Italy, war. The only sure safeguard concisely in the following terms: now too obvious to permit their be against American involvement is to While the immediate function of the Sino-Japanese war is better so ing ignored, whereas continued in-prevent war. Therefore, Secretary American armed forces in the Far long as it remains informal and un. sistence on the doctrines of sanctity Hull feels that prevention of war East is to protect and evacuate declared than it would once it is of treaties and non-intervention in elsewhere is of vital concern to the American citizens, these forces will formalised. regard to Japan is intended in- United States and calls for some not be withdrawn while existing It is felt that nothing would be directly to make it clear that, the more active steps than mere re-hostilities prevail. They represent gained by application of the act, legitimate American interests and and much might be lost. The muni- United States will never withdrawliance on the Neutrality Act.
While some quarters insist that commitments which will not be tions trade itself remains normal. whatever obstacle the maintenance
were $1,207,252.90 and to Japan of these dictrines might present to America's course toward this ob- abandoned in the face of aggres-Total sales to Chirs during August aggression in Europe. The Unitedjective of prevention of war should sion.
There will be no enforced evacua- $296,435.07. Neither figure is un- usual in terms of arms shipments to States views the world as a whole. be active co-operation with the It refuses to accept the Japanese peaceably inclined nations and the tion of Americans.
The Neutrality Act will not be either country during the past two theory that special areas deserve fullest use of America's naval and exemption for general policies. And military power as an implement for applied unless there is a formal years. They do not indicate any its attitude towards the Far East enforcing peace, the State Depart-declaration of war. To do so would sharp increase due to the hostilities is to be viewed as the key to its at- ment does not believe it has a man-be to precipitate the condition in progress. Thus American neu- date from the American public to which the United States is most trality is not being endangered by permitting this trade to continue, titude towards Europe.
pursue such a forthright policy. anxious to avoid.
The volume of American arms whereas prospects of ending the Conceiving itself to be denied this course, the State Department feels shipments to the Far East, is not war would be lessened...
•-an. This position is taken here, and that they only positive contribution considered sufficient to justify-s
Authoritative View
The source of this view can not be publicly disclosed. But it can be stated that this is the view of the officials responsible for the forma tion of American foreign policy Further, it is a view which they feel should be appreciated, not only by Americans, but by the world.
No belligerent intention should be understood as being involved in this view. The overwhelming desire of American public opinion to keep
can make toward averting war arms embargo on the theory that stoutly maintained, in the face of is the policy Secretary Hull is ap-national involvement is caused by increasing pressure by one group of plying of upholding and advocating the arms traffic. Normal commerce peace societies for immediate action for the world
is considered too important to under the Neutrality Act. Six of This policy is to-day threatened jeopardise merely to keep all them-World Peaceways, National more immediately by Japan than American munitions out of China. Council for Prevention of War, Fel- any one other nation. Therefore it The 19 airplanes which are on lowship of Reconciliation, Women's must be insistently maintained in their way to China on the steamInternational League for Peace and the Far East in the hope that if it ship Wichita may provide a test Freedom, Emergency Peace Cam-
WORLD GOES BY
By "ULYSSES
out of war is fully appreciated by THE- those in authority here, including, President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the latter's responsible subordinates in the State Department. The recent de- cision against reinforcing the Asia- tic squadron with three heavy
YOU may know (or on the other cruisers was reached, in the face
hand, you may not, which is of the extreme value they would
more probable), that in the land of have had in protecting and evacuat the Soviets, William Shakespeare's ing American nationals from China, plays have been adapted to with a realisation of the possibility Bolshevist conception of life in that such a move might have been general. construed by Japan as a threaten- ing gesture.
No Threats By US.
You
the
Bearded moujiks, samovars, dros- Iskys, vodkas and what not, flock to the Red theatres to get an earful of Comrade Shakespeare, altered a The United States is not threat-bit, of course, to fit him to the pro- ening any aggressor nation in a letarian ideology.
Comrade Fortia: Tarry a little.
Comrade Shylock
military sense. But American for- For instance, in the court scene eign policy is now firmly based on in "The Merchant of Venice": certain broad principles of peace- ful international conduct embracing non-aggression, non-intervention and observance of treaty obliga- tions. These principles are ad- vocated for the entire world with- out exception.
Secretary Hall hopes that ulti- mately these principle will prevail over force. But he realises that they cannot prevail if they have no ad- vocates Therefore he conceives it to be the peculiar function of the United States to day to advocate them constantly and insistently and to keep them alive. To accept Japan's contention, as expressed in Japan's response to Secretary Hull's
:
Under the statutes of the U.S.S.E. Your bond denieth Marxian prin-
ciples,
You do pursue the trade of usury, You are a bourgeois to be li-
quidated,
With all this talk of interest and
profit.
Comrade Shylock: Give me
principal and let me go.
A curse upon the vile Gay Pay
U.
A curse on Lenin in his plate
glass tomb,
Ten thousand curres on
Five Year Plan!
the
Comrade Portia: So, you confess
your Trotskian sabotage.
Comrade Shylock: Nay, take away
life: pardon not that.":
my
I do confess I did conspire with
Trotsky, Give me, another spot of Don't care dope
And I'll confess to anythin
you please.
paign, and the Committee on Mili- tarism in Education--joined over the week end in a declaration that events in the Far East are paral- Teling the events that led up to our Fentrance into the World War" and that the Neurality Act should therefore be applied immediately
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U.S. As Force For Peace In opposing this contention the State Departinent is thinking back a little farther. Some of its officials recall that the World War original- ly broke because Germany was un- der the impression that England- would not fight. Also that American intervention never entered into the calculations of the German general staff. There is no disposition to com mit the United States in advance to war against the aggressor nations. And three for Stalin: and then Their general staffs are probably
Comrade Portio: Give him another spot, three cheers for Marx! Comrade Shylock: A Danieloff come to judgment. Let me add Three load cheers for the work-
ers' revolution,
against a wall- ̈
Shoot me at dawn.
Comrade Portia: We try our best
to please; Take him away and see he gets
the works.
A native of Egypt recently pulled out all his own teeth for a wager Now he talks Gum Arabic.
free to assume that the United States will not enter a war against them. But until the time when war breaks out it is felt here that a eise of American for peace may to some slight extent, put an obstacle in the way of war which did not exist in 1914. Europe did not think of the United States as a factor in 1914.
The modern craze is for speed, Secretary, Hull believes that it can
safely be a peace factor now.
The mere weight of American dis-
no matter what it costs," writer. Pace at any price.
Many fashionable women are approval, even if not backed by adopting snakes as pets They are threat of force, can have a stabilis- said to be tame, affectionate and ing influence, it is felt. Secretary faithful, and in addition sometimes Hull backs, this up by his reciprocal provide a strong moral lesson to trade programme intended to make
peace. more attractive than war. late home-coming husbands.
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