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Show if Japan's peaceful policy in the South Seas became impossible, she might have to reconsider it. This was taken as an obvious reference to the Netherlands Indies and a hint that force might be used. j sion in the Far East. Until the Tokyo statesmen bound themselves to Germany and Italy in a formal alliance, which is plainly aimed at the United States, this country, despite its great sympathy for China, permitted Japan to buy vast quantities of war materials and continued to purchase the silk upon which Japanese fiscal strength largely depends. Just the other day, Foreign Minister Min-ister Yosuke Matsuoka issued a formal statement for the foreign office reaffirming Japan's loyalty to the Triple Alliance. He denied reports "in the United States" that Japan had become indifferent to the German-Italian-Japanese treaty. trea-ty. Moreover, he threatened that LET JAPAN MAKE THE PEACE IN THE FAR EAST The suggestion has been advanced advanc-ed recently that the time is ripe for the United States to make an effort to settle the differences be-tween be-tween Japan and China, with a view to removing the Far East as a source of possible trouble. . We have no idea whether there is any basis for the belief that peace can be arranged in the Far East through a settlement of the issues that threaten to result in hostilities between the United States and Japan. Certainly, it is absurd to write of the Far Eastern question in a manner indicating that all the United States has to do in order to bring about peace, harmony and good will in the Far East is to be reasonable with Japan. Ja-pan. The government of the United States has been exceedingly reasonable rea-sonable with the Japanese since they began their policy of aggres- |