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JAPAN TRIES A NEW TACK

Signs have never been wanting

for later she will realise that China was a way of life millennia before Czechoslovakia, was ever heard of, with all that that im- plies. She will see that China is to Japan what old Austria was to Germany. If Japan wants "co- operation,' therefore, she had better court it with the states- manship of a Bismarck. She cer- tainly cannot bring it into being with the same axe that she has. used in war making.

It is the utter absence of statesmanship in Japan shown in such things as the invitation to puppetry extended to the Gener- alissimo that makes so many ob- servers despair of a right solu- tion in the Far East.

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