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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

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strategists who are in charge of the Conquered

Japanese campaign in China and of

the enormotts power and efficiency of

the war machinery they control,

I have le doubt, however, that had Japan's militarista possessed

their

By' "An Old Singer"

27, 1937.

Task

periodle long spells of furiough, and the white man who has once allowed himself to "go yellow" is shunned by by them a one who has been strick en with an infectious disease,

Some peoplo, believe the influence to be latent in the soll, others in the elimalo, ur, and more correctly, that It emanates from the minds of the people. But there is nothing that

greater foresight and less swollen But when the day urriyes and enn be pointed to as essentially wrong heads they would have pondered Japan's forces are able to break or evil in Chinese mentally. much longer before they plunged through all organised Rues of reals- On the contrary it is most like-

2 country into

And that is conflict the tance in China, that country will still able, even admirable. ultimate result of which is still for be for from brought to her knees, just where the anger lies, for it is beyond the horizon

To do that Japan must prepare to not healthy for more virile, asser- Presumably Japan believed that the country end kubduing its countless they learn to appreciate the placid face the trait of conquering the whole tive, and combative peoples when conflict would be short and decisive millions of inhabitants, 5 and that China would speedily yield such concessions na she desired in regard to Northern territory.

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indifference and easily attained con- tentment of Chinese philosophy.

I believe the real explanation of Chinese "inscrutability"— word used Dr. Wellington Kou, in his recent to describe a recognised but indefin- must have been terribly lacking in appeal to the League of Nations, aug able attitude of mind-is foresight, for it is already obvious gested that such a stupendous objec- complex. The Chinese, more than that they must have most seriously tive may be in the minds of Japan'a any other people on the globe, are underestimated both China's deter- Imperialists.

possessed of an overwhelming siperi- mination to fight it out and hor amaz-

ority complex. ing power of resistance to n foe far Ne pictured Japan as dominating It is difficult for the foreign visitor better equipped and organised than the limitless man-power of Cathey, to the country who sees the squalor and he made delegates' Besh creep by and misery of her teeming millions herself.

Private reports received In Eng- foretelling what would be the conse to realise that even the sweating Innd during the early summer both quences of such domination to West- ricksha coolie who pulls him through from Japan and Chino showed that ern civilisation.

the street is regarding him as being to himself. Dr. Koo is an able diplomat und of vastly inferior eln the Japanese were

prepared In

But one of the most engaging personality: Yet it a the case, and that firm con- advance to strike their blow. there is no evidence to suggest that hold him in the highest respect, yet viction is shared by the whole of they anticipated the necessity of am convinced" tint he had his China's population. organising the whole of their Empire tongue in his cheek when he was But a superiority complex is a upon a war footing, of conscripting uttering that warning to the states- most enervating possession. their nationals, or of calling up their men of Europe.

may hold himself in high esteem, but reservists from all quarters of the No Chinese of his attainments and he only goes forward as long as some- world.

brudition could hold any genuine be- where in the fnmost recesses of his And yet, the blow having once lief in the possibility of any outside mind he holds a suspicion that he been struck, the Japanese are now nation ever gaining the control of might do better. Anding themselves obliged to resort China's man-power. to these stern mensures in order to follow up. Chinese Unity

I sin under no delusions as to the incomparable superiority of the Japn- nese military forces over those of China. Its overwhelming.

than most fantastle bugy.

A man

The "yellow peril" is a threat use- A Constant Irritant ful at times for the purpose of frigh- tening Europe, but it is one which to So it is with nations. Japan has Chinese who have made close study made her extraordinary rise to world of the peculiar psychology of their power not, because of any overween- own. race is known to be no more ing persuasion that she is better and more enlightened than other nations, The Chinese may be conquered but because she has been conscious ngain as they have been in the past, of inferiority. years in Ching at a time when she adventurous people they would have but that inferiority complex is still the aggressive, behind protestations of boastfulness, was overrun by her own military

to become before 1kvir bandits, what I marvel at is the way man-power could be made into a at this moment driving her forward anlimited there, an irritant and stimulus that is in which those rag-tag free-booters have knit themselves together before menace to the rest of the world. upon her adventure in China,

Will the Japanese-hould their

If Japan, after invasion of China, Such unity can hardly have been island empire prove capable of stand- could convey to a subject people who spontaneous; and yet if it was not ing the economic strain that, will be outnumber her by five to one, some how come it that Japan seemingly put upon it before conquest of China of the galling energy that has spurred was aware of the important change is effected their fate will be the her forward, the menace to the rest effected in the last few years?

the of the world would

As one who lived a good many mould them

but their conquerors will never Nowadays she may try to hide

a common fuc.

Into

uvertook same as that which

be very renl.

it seems pretty clear that some- Tartars, Mongols, and Manchus, and But the chances are all the other body has bungled, and that Japan Cathay will absorb her invaders and has set her hand to a task of far more sap them of their strength. fermidable dimensions than she bar- Mysterious Influence

gained for.

Just when and where China's mili-

tary resistance de going to crumble Everyone who has lived in China no one as yet can say. The debacle is aware of this amazing influence. may come at any moment, or the

way and in favour of China com municating to her conquerors that roporific of superiority which reduced the Tartars and the Manchus to apathy and sofinesa.

Though we are not likely to live to see its fulfilment, I fully believe Europeans who take up their life--that it once Japan accomplishes n rout may be gradual over a period of work in the country safeguard them- conquest of China that achievement many months.

selves as far as possible against it hy will spelt her own doom.

Dabblers in Foreign Affairs

DUMOUR was flitting around that

gether at an early date in conse-

Making Govern- representatives to Westminster. There

quence of the disturbed conditions ment's Task More

in the Mediterranean and the Far Enst...

"Difficult

By "An Old Stager"

people of this country have seat their

has been too much of this bistering

during recent years, and it has been

doing great disservice to the cause of parliamentary government,

The worst of the trouble is that these incautious and infiammatory speeches are not delivered only by cranks Trici back-benchers. Mr. Lloyd George, who has never sur- ceeded in making his mind move

I did not attach credence to the suggestion. The National Govern- rent bus not shown Itself prone to advertise the gravity of emergencies, and the assembling of Parliament at short notice would most undoubtedly have had a disturbing effect on the slight domestic mischance night at much beyond the immediate post-war commercial and industrial nerves of any mument sweep it aside and place period, hus, in my opinion, been a the country, as well as tending to in- in its stead these very men who have ransgressor on several occasions re- crease the tension felt upon the Con- been most outspoken in their hatred cently.

tinent.

Even Mr. Churchill is not always

of all that Nazism and Fascism stand as circumspect as we would expect Moreover, the Cabinet in the past for

ร

hos shown itself quite prepared to

of one of his astuleness. But in par- reach it own decisions and to nel Sobering Effect of Ofice

ticular remember an occasion a few upon them without previous consulta-

years back when the late Sir Austen Chamberlain took the Houseo and the tion with the représentatives of the

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arouse ill-feelings towards us in the below the gangway, Sir Austen, In minds of other nations. And the the harsh tones and with that ex- futility of such debates, is positively cathedra manner so characteristic of painful.

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countrymen. The point is that they due to our Government being able No matter how roundly may be ought not to have been voiced across to pursue its rightful role in the condemned the old, system of secret the floor of the House of Commons qno affatra diplomacy there can be no hard and by an elder statesman and leadership, of international unembarrassed by the constant de- fast rules upon which a Government, who was actually an ex-member1et mands of Parliament to place its of whatever complexion, can determ the Cabinet of the day, cards on the table, and unrefuted by ine its relations with foreign Powers. The speech was, from à jourhallelic the Joud-voiced declarations of min- There is always the other fellow to point of view, "good copy." It was ority spokesmen that it is not carry consider.

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Stales I in just like a game of chess, and ceived great publicity. In In these days of absolute dictator- a Foreign Secretary can no more which have little sympathy and less ahipsit stands to reason that in such declare in advance to Parliament understanding for the immenso free- countries as Germany and Italy, far what his next move is going to be dom of our Parliamentary system it more attention than is merited is at- than a chess-player con announce was deemed incredible that Sir Aus- tached to the often ill-considered what he intenda to do until his adver- ten was merely voicing his own pil- pronouncements of Opposition spokes- sary has moved his plece across the vale convictions "aff his own bat." In Germany it was taken for grant- men, who are far more anxious to board.

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