Show BERLINS GLOOMY VIEW Widespread Conviction That Conflict Will Come Berlin Tho conviction of an ultimate ulti-mate conflict between Japan and tho United States appears to be widespread wide-spread In Germany It Is one of the subjects certain to be referred to wherever diplomatists and military naval officials nnd others accustomed to follow international politics meet The newspapers agree that President Roosevelt Is 1 earnestly trying to satisfy satis-fy tho Japanese requests They agree also that Japan asks nothing unreasonable unrea-sonable They recognize that the difficulty dif-ficulty lies in the question of race the economic antagonism of tho Californians Califor-nians against tho Japanese and tho constitutional impossibility of federal coercion It is believed by many that the group of ruling statesmen in Japan are preparing to fight the United States for tile mastery of tho Pacific Paci-fic regardless of tho San Francisco Incidents Tho stragetglfsta of the admiralty regard re-gard a naval war between Japan and the United States as tho most interesting interest-ing problem of the day Careful studies that have been worked out are unfavorable to the United States because the American fleet although of greater power than that of Japan would have to seek a fight in Japans home waters |