AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 December 1924, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

JINGOISM DENOUNCED. , “A TACTLESS PROPOSAL.” BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ? / ’ NEW YORK, Dec/ 19. ; Government House, Avhose officials have been nuzzled and somewhat disturbed by agjtation over the United States and Japanese relations, took occasion to bespeak an .era of most cordial relations betAveen the two countries. * •

Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State), departing from .jirecedent, issued a formal statement taking notice of the appointment of Mr Matsudaira as ambassador here, and welcoming him as a' step toward further cementing the friendship between Tokio and Washington.

/ The neAvspapers with one voice praise Mr Hughes’, unprecedented appreciation of Mr Matsudaira. They practically unite in denouncing the jingoism of Mr Britten, a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, , The Herald-Tribune points out that “before the Washington Conference an alarming situation did exist, which, however, was cleared, up by the friendly co-operation of the two Rowers. Americans Avill welcome Mr Matsudaira’s appointment to the ambassadorshio of the United States. They* consider a* Pacific compact highly desirable .with an international . agreement, in' the maintenance of Avhich both Japanese and American interests converge.- Therefore, no time could have been less fitting for " Mr Britten’s, tactless and hysterical proposal for: a conference of the white races of the Pacific to guard against the menace of Japan.” / ' The- World declares,: “The theory underlying Mr Britten’s Avhite men’s conference is that the Pacific Ocean is a Avhite-man’s lake, and that the millions of yellow races are outsiders. Fortunately, Mr Britten is quite alone ■in his efforts to bait the other side of the Pacific.”

Even other Pacific Coast Congressmen are condemning Mr Britten’s attitude.