AMERICA AND THE EAST

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 7

AMERICA AND THE EAST

PAN-ASIATIC MOVEMENT

JAPAN AMONG HER NEIGHBOURS,

(EXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION COPIRIGHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-HEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 19th June V

The "Evening Post's" Tokio correspondent says officials are not prepared to comment on the American reply to the Japanese protest against the exclusion law, but information from reliable sources reveals that it will neither augment the anti-American movement nor change the Cabinet's policy. Nor will it erase private resentment at the discrimination. However, indications of graver consequences multiply. These are only surface evidences, but all confirm the outstanding fact that America's influence in the Orient has weakened.

Observers point out that America's friendly relations are perhaps academically unimpaired, but the former quasi entente cordials lias been replaced impolite tension, which impels Japan to consider adopting another friend. Already she has shown readiness to meet Franco half-way, while Moscow is seizing the opportunity by offering Japan such concessions as will assure a treaty of recognition.

Chinese students have persuaded numbers of Japanese students to join the Pan-Asiatic movement, thereby strengthening the anti-foreign movement. This apparently furnishes a common ground on which the former enemies may meet. The latest recruit is Dr. Sun Vat Sen' who, on behalf of South China's antiforeign movement, is sending an emissary to Tokio, Where he will be received with honour. Evidently Japan will retain American trade, but is almost done with American principles and policies.