Show M M t M M M M M MM MM M M M o M M M M i COMMENT ON THE ALLIANCE 1 M M M I M M t M M ft M M 4 M M M M M M M M MAs As might have been expected the promulgation I of I the Japanese Anglo-Japanese treaty of alliance has created a decided stir in the political and diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic circles of Europe Also it has set the he press of the United Kingdom cogitating over the matter in an unusually lively way On the whole opinion in in the Continental centres seems seems to favor the th idea that Great Britain has better end of the bargain bargain bargain bar bar- gain a view from fh m w which ich the London Dail Daily News dissents saying that the advantages of the treaty are almost all all all' on the side of Japan and China and that the third clause of the agreement might embroil embroil em broil the British Government in war in every part of the world to help Japan All the leading English journals plainly plainy show that they nurse the hope that th t the United States St tes having ing practically identical interests in China and Korea with the allies will give the alliance its moral support if nothing more The London Times on this point says The Americans still cling to the idea that thai th their iJ foreign policy can be carried on without entangling ng alliances But they recognize that the aims othe the new alliance are just and if they are neutral it is with a benevolent a and d sympathetic neutrality Probably the London Times is not far from giving a correct definition of the American attitude in the tile connection Intrinsically it would not make male any difference to us whether China or Russia owned occupied and administered Manchuria But we should be seriously and perhaps actively concerned concerned con con- were the latter to erect a tari wall i in the the province pr vince against our commerce which was free under the the Chinese regime We are aie equally interested interested interested inter inter- I ested to see that our commercial rights are not invaded invaded in in- in Korea If the Japanese Anglo-Japanese a alliance liance shall tend to preserve the Open Door certainly this country must look upon it as a good thing and think of it with benevolent emotions But that is about as asfar asfar asfar far as we should care to go There is little doubt however that were a crisis to be reached in the Far Fal Eastern Question threatening our trade interests interests interests inter inter- ests dangerously or likely to end in shutting us off from om access to the Asiatic continent from its Pacific Ocean side very ery conceivably we might ta take e part pait in discussion a a. a with mailed fists But B while the alliance of Great Gre t Britain with Japan shall continue continue continue con con- the possibility of such a thing will wili be calculated calculated calculated to prevent its occurrence There is not a statesman diplomat or military mi expert in the Old World or the New who does not fully appreciate what a a. combination of the British American and Japanese navies would mean to the Power or Powers in opposition to them in the event of an attack upon their common interests From that viewpoint we are encouraged to conclude that the Japanese Anglo treaty spells peace in the Orient for some time to come |