Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1936, Page 36

PAGT WITH REICH HELD TOKIO ERROR Japan Faces Danger of War With Britain as Result of Alliance. 4 distinguished Japanese author and journalist, who has spent more than 30 years in the United States as a newspaper correspondent and as a writer and lecturer on po- litical science, analyzes the Ger- man-Japanese pact in the follow= ing article. He covered the 1921-2 Disarmament Conference in Wash~ ington, the Geneva Naval Con- ference in 1929 and the London Naval Conjerence in 1930. BY K. K. KAWAKAML. Japan’s alliance with Germany, if eemented, means her eventual war with England, which, in turn, may mean ultimate conflict with America. It is unthinkable that, in & world war in which Great Britain plays a major part, the United States will or can long remain aloof, neutrality law or no neutrality law. That, in the last analysis, is the most fmportant issue injected into world politics by the German-Japanese agreement, call it entente or alliance, which Tokio has now invoked in the Chinese crisis. In comparison, the Ashery and oil concessions, which Mos- cow has recently given Japan, but which it now threatens to cancel, sink into insignificance. ‘These, no doubt, were the thoughts deep in the minds of Japan's privy councilors, immediate advisers to the throne, when, on December 9, these sedate senior statesmen were con- strained to take Premier Koki Hirota and Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita to task for the apparently light-hearted manner in which these latter had dis- posed of the grave question of Japan's relationship with the Reich for the five years to come. Blame Not All in Foreign Office. However, it does not seem fair to place the entire blame at the door of the foreign office. Quite possibly the agreement did not originate there. Conceivably it was a product of dilet- tante diplomacy, dabbled in of late in certain circles of the army and navy. Only to the extent that the foreign office could not repel the pressure from those circles was it responsible for what now appears & ‘monumental blunder. It now seems fairly clear that this German-Japanese accord was hatched up in Berlin rather than in Tokio. Bignificantly, the agreement was signed and made public in Berlin, and not in Tokio. While the capital of the Reich greeted it with much jubi- lation, Tokio was but mildly pleased, even decorously cool. It the scope of the Tokio-Berlin accord is limited to the written agree- ment heralded to the world on No- vember 25, there is no occasion for alarm and apprehension on the part of other powers. It merely obligates the signatories to co-operate on anti- Communist measures, exchanging po- lece information and setting up a German-Japanese commission to fa- cilitate the necessary co-operation. But the very innocuousness of the document has aroused the suspicion that it is a camouflage for a more portentous understanding of a politico- military nature. Both in Tokio and in Berlin that suspicion has been characterized as slanderous insinu- ation. Technically, they are -perhaps »ight in making the categorical de- nial. There may be no written agree- ment other than what has been made public. But an understanding of the alleged nature does not necessarily have to be converted into black and white. That is why other powers, particularly Soviet Russia, are so sus- picious. . Britain's Reaction Miscalculated. Both in Germany and in Japan, whoever were responsible for this agreement miscalculated Britain’s pos- sible reaction to it and the British sentiment toward red Russia. Super- ficially and generally speaking, Eng- land is anti-red. There is a consid- erable pro-German trend in influential quarters in England. Seeing this pro- German, anti-red tendency in influ- ential circles in England, superficial observers, both German and Japanese, seem to have jumped to the conclu- sion that Downing Street and the British public would acclaim a Ber- lin-Tokio accord aimed openly at the Third International, and, by implica- tion, at Soviet Russia itself. That was & grievous miscalculation. England’s concern is, first and fore- most, the preservation of empire in- terest through the maintenance of the powers, which leaves British interest not seriously disturbed. But the moment Germany and Japan form an alliance against Russia, England casts aside her Russophobia and her pro-German sentiment, for such an alliance upsets the balance of power and thus eventun.lly disturbs British interest. Key in Hands of France. In Berlin and Tokio strategists seem to think that war between Russia on one hand and Germany and Japan on the other, if it should come, could be limited to the three nations con- cerned. Were this possible, England might remain neutral in such a con- fiict, but it is not possible. ‘The key, of course, is in France’s hand. It is inconceivable that France should watch with folded arms Ger- man victory over Russia, which would make the Reich preponderant on the continent. With France leaping into the fray England will not long remain neutral. Italy will, for a while, sit on the fence, but will eventually cast her lot with the side most likely to win. With the war developing to this magnitude, will the isolationists of America succeed in keeping their country out of it? The Japanese states- men believe not. «Copyright, 1936, by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) . MILITARY EXPERTS HELD ONLY REAL DIPLOMATS BY the Associated Press, RIVERSIDE, Calif., December 17.— The work of civilian politicians in Europe and Asia constitutes a “diplo- matic facade,” Vernon MacKenzie, director of the School of Journalism at the University of Washington, told the Institute of World Affairs here ‘Tuesday. Many of their treaties are given to the world to satisfy and affect public opinion, MacKenzie said, while the effective diplomacy is that conducted by military leaders in quiet conferences. Discussing “the new secret diplo- macy,” he said military, naval and air experts confer and accomplish the actual treaties between nations while the politicians are loudly acclaimed as the treaty makers. “The treaties registered with the League of Nations since 1918 do not by any means record all the agree- ments made between even League nations,” he said, THE DERWOOD MILL DERWOOD, MD. S to rket ch: uots the ‘Tollowing Tow prices on our Rish- quality feeds. 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