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"THE TIMES” AND

SHANGHAI

Meanwhile, what of Brussels? Japan again finds herself con- dermed by an international as- sembly, but no decisions have been reached. Latest reports

"The Times" is published in indicate that the onus may be London, ten thousand miles from thrust upon the United States, the scene of Sino-Japanese hostias seemed almost inevitable from the beginning. There is, how- lities and may, for that reason, be pardoned its misjudgment of ever, no possibility of a repeti- This the temper and spirit of the Chi-tion of the 1931 fiasco.

time, the United States will be in nese people in the present crisis. The principal error, apart from a position to declare what steps the unnecessarily lugubrious sur she is prepared to take in the vey of the military situation, is certain knowledge that Britain the assumption that Shanghai is and France will be alongside in the war and that the Japanese every movement. That throws a having taken complete control in great responsibility upon the the Shanghai area, hostilities are shoulders of President Roosevelt and Congress. And there can be as near termination as Japan may elect to decree. Japan is im no certainty of what the res plored to consider the position as ponse will be. On the one hand, now created, and having grati- we have the traditional strength fied a craving for military glory, of American isolationist opinion and determination for peace. We to make her peace with China on that basis! If we mistake not have various retreats from the the purport of the argument, Far East, especially the project- The Times" assumes that China ed withdrawal from the Philip would run to accept any peace pines. On the other han that might be proffered, an as-American isolationism is being sumption that we believe to be abandoned by realistic and ex- as false as we hope is the fur-perienced authorities, such as

Only "little me ther implication behind it: that Mr. Hull

are

were Japan to rest content with cans of the Middle West what she has achieved, the Pow-unintelligent enough to keep on ers might acquiesce in some thinking that complete national measure of stabilisation of Jap Isolation" is possible to-day. Again, American isolationism has an's ill-gotten gains.

Europe-centred, On our own reading of the always been

on Washington, if not the United speeches made at Brussels Saturday, happily, no such rank States at large, has watched the betrayal could be possibly found Pacific and the Far East. From as within the contemplation of Webster and Hay to Stimson and any of the statesmen there as Swanson official opinion has de sembled. They may not have a clared America's interests in the clear idea of what they are going East, and determination to pro- to do next. But they are far tect those interests. It was not from the stage of any form of Mr. Stimson's fault that the consent to Japan's free hand in American protest against Japan partitioning China. The rapid in 1931 was left lonely and in- ity of the retreat from the mo effective.

set

ment that China's hold on Shang-America has always been ready hai was shaken seems to have to intervene when Japanese ex- given an unnecessarily strong pansion has gone too far, as with picture of military dis in Kiaochao and Shantung, the Fingland. It seems to have been Twenty-one Demands, Siberia, that no prior to and naval parity. Mr. Reffer has ties, imagined that China's even claimed that from 1915 "the- of defence would reveal it chronicle of international poli- so brilliantly as to be able ties m the Far East has been one confine the Japanese military of Japanese advances and Ameri machine to a narrow sector for can obstruction." The Open three months. It seems to have Door policy for China and past been forgotten that military de history indicate that the Boose- feat, withdrawal exacted at a yelt offer at Chicago, however price, has always been accepted veiled, may be very real, since as an inevitable feature of America will act here when left China's campaign. It seems to unmoved by a European crisis. have been forgotten that Chiang In Washington no doubt is held Kai-shek has never imagined that about Japanese breaking of the his armies could meet the Jap-Kellogg Pact and the Nine-Power anese juggernaut on equal terms. Treaty. The latter 297 His policy has been to fight,

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