Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1925, Page 13

BRITISH SEE WAR LIKELY, BUT IN DISTANT FUTURE Expect to Be Involved in Any American-Japanese Clesh—F ear Possible Combine Menacing Peace. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. LONDON, February 19.—The danger of an American-Japanese conflict, which bulked large at the time of my other visits to London in 1922-24, seems to have been counted in recent British official nor opinfon now anticipates ans explosion in the Far ISast cither In- volving America, Great Britain or both countrie 3 No effort is made here to minimize the underlylng serlousness of the Far Bastern situation. The drift of opinion, however, seems to be in th direction of a belief that there will e no aggressive Japanese action while peace {& maintained in Europe, and as a subsidlary detall, while there is no grave development in India. On the other hand. it is equally appreciated here that Japanese senti- bitter toward both ment remains America and England and is unlikely to change for the better, since there is no pos<ibility of any modification of the attitude of the United States and of British dominion toward Jap- anese immigration Fear Three-Power Merger. To put the thing broadly, the Brit- fsh regard one of the outstanding dangers of the present world situ- ation as a possible combination be- tween Russia, Germany and Japan and the recent treaty between Japan and Russia has oned much rather restrained comment. One hears in London a good deal more talk about the possible conflict be tween the vellow and white races than in Amerios, or perhaps more exactly, than In the East of the United States. Informed British opinion seems to arriving at the conclus | peace in the West v - | temporary, if mot per t, peace | in the Bast. By contrast, If one could be conceive of another war in the West on the lines and expanding to the pro- portions of the last, then the common verdict is that the in tion of the white T E vitable exhaus es would pro- with an | be al- et ard Japan opportuni which would not lowed to escape. Race Prestige Gone. What stands out beyond all else is the British perception based upon intimate knowledge of ard long con- | tinued experience with the E; that | what one might call the prest the West, of vide th, the white ra been completely shatteved b: World War and canhot be restored to anything like the old form. The | consequence has been an enormous modification of the view of the East toward the West, which w to_show itself in all direct But, so far as an Americ anese conflict is concerned the British | do not helieve Japan will attack the United States under present circum- | stances because they feel saticfied that the revelation of our industrial strength during the World War and the disclosure of the relative value ! of military_and economic resources in the conflict have not been lost upon the Japanese mind. Granted | these circumstances and assuming th practical impossibility of )y deal- | ing us any decisive or even crip- pling blow, the British dismiss such a struggle from the range of imme- diate possibilities In the same sense one hears much comment on the fact that the over- throw of the great German military machine and the complete failure n-Jap- ' 4 outof 5 Dental istics. that four out of every five over 40—as well a8 thousands younger— ‘stoll. 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The noton e fleet might venture vevond the circles of its own de fe E e for Australia seems utterlv improbable, what is re assuring, more likely to | uicav G suscer Lhun success were it actually undertaken All of which is another way of say- ing that British opinion does not look for uny Japanese explosion in the Far East for an appreciable time and does not fear unything that Japan might do now excessively. It believes that if it proves possible to arrive it an adjustment with Germany and an ultimate reappearance of Russia rn power, the chief danger— division of white races— avoided can be Thus in examining the manifest ef- forts of British statesmen at the mo- ment to bring about peace in Europe one must see, not alone a Kuro- pean, but na Asiatic purpose, and che British belicf that both Germany and Russia must be permitted to re- sume possession of most, if not all, of what lost in the East. See Pacific Power. is clear that while the Brit- t expect any immediate ex- plosion in the Far East, they are ap- prehensive that eventual conflict may be unavoidable, and they are equaily convinced that the possible war will break out between America and Japan rather than between Japan and Brit- ain. Looking to the long future, the Pay What You Will STUDEBAKER You Can Buy no Finer Car Yet it ish do e “PHILLIPS" MILK, OF MAGNESIA Accept only genuine “Phillips,” the original Milk of Magnesia prescribed | by physicians for 50 years as an antacid, laxative, corrective. | 25-cent bottles, also 50-cent bottles, contain directions—any drug store. | as Just anthe stability ofa buil s dependent upon a firm foundation, lepe! upon healthy gums THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925. British expect the United States to dovelop as a Pacific power that is to come gradually to have a growing policy of expansion in eastern mar- Kkots Accepting now, as they largely do, the view that the United States will not joln the League of Natlons. as- sociate itself with European affairs or even have any active European policy, they are more than ever con- vinced that we shall find surselves drawn Into esstern complications, pulled by the temptations of emstern markets, and in the end, perhaps com- mitted to some more or less expan- sive policy in the Far' East which will bring us in collision with Japan. Pressure of Peoples. 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