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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 9

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WAR NOT WANTED

COMMENTS IN AMERICA

NEW YORK, December 15,

Press editorial comments on the situation continues to be interesting.

The "New York World-Telegram," in a leading article,: states: "It must not happen again. The people of the United States do not want war with Japan, nor, we believe, do the people of Japan want war with the United States. We hope Tokio will find a way to impress her, mad militarists with the wisdom of looking before they shoot, for if this is not done it is just a question of time until a new incident occurs. Emotions may then be aroused to such a pitch that we will suddenly find ourselves, Japanese and Americans alike, up to our necks in trouble which none of us wants."

The Japanese Consul-General in New York, Mr. Kaname Wakasugi, issued the following statement: "In these critical moments be calm, wise, and far-seeing regarding the present conflict in China, because the situation in the Far East is so complicated and the causes so bound up with history that no good purpose would be seared by mere argument excited by emotion or hasty judgment based on one-sMed provocation." Mr. Walter Lippmann, the notedVpublicist, presents a strong argument against the withdrawal from China of American forces and nationals. "Asia is too big and there are too many American connections to make such a policy practicable," he says. "This war in the Orient is not a local riot It is raging over an area inhabited by more than 1P0,000,000 people with whom Americans have thousands of ties extending through many generations."