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Show Our Obligation to Japan. A Japanese lecturer, Yusuke Tsurami, speaking in this country, ponits out that his nation's dependence on other countries for much of its food is a strong argument for preserving pre-serving peace. 1 : "War with ether countries would :be fatal to our?. food supply. - Without food a nation cannot fight," he explains quietly. Thus Japan, for the sake of the food it needs, and the United States, for the sake of the eastern export market it' needs, have perfectly sound reasons for keeping the peace . veri: without considring any other phases of war's inevitable I i effect. But Mr. Tsurumi points out something else. . ; I . "America," he says, "in having introduced western cjvili- I zation nito Japan, has obligated itself to bur country. Japan j I looks to the United States for much of its guidance and aid." "Noblesse oblige" ought to apply to a nation as well as as to an individual. If the citizens of our own country are sincerely as peace-loving as they call themselves, and if they feel genuine good will toward other peoples, then local jingo- I ism and too quick resentment of either real or fancied insults j should be curbed. And any policies, such as immigration re-, re-, striction, should be handled in as kindly and generous a way . ! as possible. |