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Hong Kong, Tuesday, February 8, 1938 war against Britain, detract from
JAPAN'S HYSTERIA
The stand which, it is shadowed, will be taken by
such sentiments. Nor does Ad- miral Suetsugu, we should judge, countenance them for a moment. The comparatively moderate re- presentations of the "Oriental Economist” editorial columns are fore-embellished by writers · în the
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papers. They extol the new Lea- gue against the League of Na- to the Anglo-American demar- tions as something which might che requesting an elucidation of even recommend itself to the Japan's naval construction plans, United States, as a non-member is certainly not calculated to ease fact that Russia is a member of of the Geneva organisation. The the situation in the naval sphere. the League of Nations justifies, It has long been suspected that they assert, the new orientation Japan has at least two ships ex- of the pact originally launched as
"anti-Communist.” ceeding treaty limitations on the stocks. The object of the Brit- From whatever viewpoint we ish and American Notes is to regard the development of this secure an assurance that these animosity the guiding lights seem clear. Britain has declared suspicions are untrue and thus against joining either "ideologi- prevent unnecessary building cal camp” in Europe. Germany's competition. If the report is object is to turn the "anti-Com- intern pact" into an anti-League untrue, there could be no harm alliance. Significantly the latest in saying so. On the contrary, number of the "Round Table”. a better atmosphere: would be gives pride of place to an article There seems on the return of the nations to to be no reasonable in Power politics, an atmosphere..
which denies arbitration of dis- the request made, and the plain putes and "leaves no remedy for warning is given that refusal to grievances save in power politics comply must necessarily be taken or war." That Britain tries to as meaning that Japan in build-avoid such an alignment is the ing beyond "Treaty limitations. est reason with the military die In the face of this, the Japanese tatorships for forcing it on. We Admiralty, which must be aware must face the fact that the ori of the disadvantage in which it ginal League of Nations Coven- would find itself placed in com-ant is now but a museum relic. petition with the resources of The League may be revived and Britain and the United States, revised as a focus of world unity, adopts the attitude that it will but it will not be the present do just as it pleases, how and League. As the light thus clears, when it pleases and does not con- we can perceive the acute dilem- sider that it need give any ac-ma in which the British Cabinet count of its doings to anyone. currently finds itself -before The reply will be sent to establish parting of the ways lying ahead. Japan's independence of any Britain does not want to see system of limitation or control broken Germany, a broken Italy, of armaments.
a broken Japan, or another world- wide conflagration in which every There is, of course, nothing nation would be shattered and surprising in the decision. It prey to a civil jungle war Yet fits in with the present-day mood this division of the world into of Japan's militarists and might rival camps is heading more than have been expected. Jingoism is one nation for catastrophe, with a heady potion: in addition, a or without a general war. harrowed Japanese public has to by the rising hysteria in official be whipped up to emotional be circles Tokyo we may not un- lief in foreign-responsibility for warrantably measure the des the current straits. The trend peration of her military dictators of comment and propaganda in under pressure of the economic Japanese newspapers published distresses of what they call "the in English is unmistakable. home front.”
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