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MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION
NO USE TALKING
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PROVED RIGHT
BASIS PRINCIPLE
cause
We have Ambassador Grew criticis- Unless Americans (or any others) can see the China Affair in that light,
of pointing out. ing Japan's attitude no amount of pinpricking protests will bring about satisfaction to anybody, the too much legalistic attitude of the Mr. Grew, however, Until the other side - psychologically United States. changes its attitude, there will be no averred that this is the important use of talking about understanding because it is for them to understand basic principle of American foreign policy. Perhaps this may be the con- us.-"Japan Times,"
viction of the American nation as a nations as whole. If such "hàve"
and Britain could the United States More serious is the demand for the long keep all the other nations of the cession of Petsamo, Finland's only world under their absolute sway on port on the Arctic Ocean. This would the strength of mere international
would be no be especially hard since Petsamo was treaties. there ceded to Finland by a kindler Soviet whatever for them to raise any com- Government in 1920-all the more so plaints or to file any protests. But the since. Russia, has the fine harbour of Murmansk close by. But here again there are the seeds of wider trouble, for if Finland lost her narrow outlet to the Arctic Ocean would Norway have 2 common frontier with the Soviet Union - {
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SAFETY BELT?
It establishes a hazy new zone. on the high seas in which we are supposed to enforce a streamlin- ed, dramatic kind of neutrality. The country and the senate must and full demand
particulars, through debate come to under. standing of the risky possibilities this presents in our international affairs-Mr. Alfred Landon. 4
prospect she will not relish. Finland humanity.
fact that the treaties have not been everything is most eloquently attested to by the fate suffered by the Versailles structure against the inevitable ris- ing influence of the German na- tion.
America fondly talks of justice and But her history of ad-
Britain and France
the
ex-
is only a small country with a small vance to Asia is perfectly in line with who, population; against the might of Rus- those of sia she is helpless. But in the..twenty standing on the footing of the White years of their independence the Finns races' alleged superiority over have proved their right to national-Asiatic peoples, have converted this independence by many achievements. part of the world into their colonies.
So long as we are unable to (Those who know no other will sure- ly recognise the names of Sibelius and pect from America an improvement Nurmi). One hopes that Soviet Russia of her attitude to an extent that she recognition of actual will prove generous in recognising gets a correct
ap- these facts, but if not the Fintis will realities in the Far East and deserve (as they will need) all the proval of Japan's independent stand support and sympathy they can get in this part of the world, it will be quite impossible to gain adjustment -"Manchester Guardian."
of the American-Japanese relations. ---"Asahi Shimbun.”
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PRESSURE ON FINLAND
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PEACE TALK
Russia suffered her first serious set- back in the current European mix- up when she overplayed her hand in
It looks very. dealing with Turkey. much as if the same "blunder may be committed--possibly already has been
We are thinking not in terms of re- committed-in dealing with Finland.
venge for what has been done but in When the demands on Turkey were terms of prospects for making a repe- made so excessive that sentiment in tition impossible. Actually the aggres- the whole Balkan-Black
sors should be punished, but not in was crystallised ́against Russia the de- the spirit of vengeance. They should mocratic allies' position was material- be punished in a manner and to an extent that the will for war of aggres- ly improved.
In the same way there is a prospect ston is destroyed-for the purpose of of a similar turn of events, in the establishing the policy of orderly pro- Baltic-Black Sea area by over-pres- cesses and honourable procedure in
the relationships between nations. sure on Finland.
*Sea area
All indications are that Russia does
Where is the hope that peace based not intend to fight, but is out to get all that is loose and to be had by op- on coercion toward the Belgians and portune bluffing. The turn-down from the Dutch as defenseless peoples will Turkey has shifted the Russian pres- last longer than it takes to recharge terror-spreading on the batteries of the sure northward, putting Finland
in demands war machines? Is it possible to hope the spot. Moderation
the that the Belgians and the Dutch, the would most probably improve position of Russia, at least tem- Poles and the Czechs, the peoples of porarily, but the sweeping success in the Balkans and the Baltic will be rea Poland at the expense of the German sonably safe and secure under condi- aggressors has produced a form of in- tions produced by a peace established toxication from which recovery is not on the basis of the present state of af- fairs? Can honourable peace be made casy.-"Manila Bulletin."
safe?
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HEIGHT OF ABSURDITY
These questions can be answered in only one way, the pessimistic way, Perusal of his speech, however, unless the people of Germany have shows that Ambassador Grew, in his been made to see the error and the views cherished as, to the
current wrong of that which they have been no im- led into, unless they have been taught. China Affair, has acquired
whatever over those a lesson more emphatically than is yet provement cherished by him previous to his re- indicated by the reports coming from. turn to America on furlough. If those their recognized spokesmen, The basis views of the Ambassador us expressed of acceptable peace certainly is not; to: at the America-Japan Society lun- be found at present on the Dutch and cheon really represented the Far Eas- Belgian borders. We should like to tern views of his home Government, hope that it is to be found in' the nothing could be more deplored. The minds of those who led Germany on fact is that the talked-of construction the path of war making and in the of a new order in East Asia is already hearts of the people within Germany, matter of falt accompli. To but the situation must be different Jargely a try to bring this situation back to its from the revealed picture of it, it such former state would be the height of a.hope is to find support in realities.
"Manila Bulletin... absurdity itself "Hochi Shimbun."
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