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Show ernmenti of Peiping and Nanking. It may be that it is ourselves who are all wrong in the In-ability In-ability of the occidental mind to understand how terrible it is to "lose face." The year Just ended saw considerable tomfoolery tom-foolery in the name of international diplomacy and the year Just beginning is evidently to see more of the same. Naivete in Nippon IN MANY past Instances of maladroitnesa on the part of Japanese statesmen and Its generals and admirals, there seems to have been complete com-plete reliance on polite apology, confession of mistake and promise not to repeat. Most grave occurrences have been treated by them as minor social errors. They have never exhibited ability to appraise their own attitudes in terms of the foreign viewpoint Nippon's most indulgent critics have tried to believe that the artlesaness, so child-like, of the little brown man offers the only explanation of some of his most oblique Justifications for unimaginable un-imaginable misbehavior. Others, including ourselves, our-selves, have simply believed that the Japanese are wholly bereft of a sense of humpr. It is that we think, that must stand in tha way of their getting tha hang of the simplest principles f psychology, especially of applied psychology. Tha new ministry gives evidence of this shortcoming short-coming surpassing all predecessors. It is single-minded toward warmaking, regarding tha Chines soundly beaten which may be a fact and toward consolidating tha fruits of victory. Except for its profound naivete, the cabinet could reasonably assume that position and go far. But Japan must live with the rest of the ' world. It overlooks the point As it warns that various open doors are now closed, that age-old rights stand abrogated and business will be dona on its own terms, it Introduces something new In trade promotion and appeasement For tha Jspsnese have announced that they hop to in-tercet in-tercet western capital in China as a method of re-I re-I establishing trad in the occupied areas and ap-I ap-I , pease the Chinee population. They are not' ready, according to a reliable spokesman in Tokyo, to open the Yangtze river to England and the U. S. because of the widespread wide-spread publicity given the demands from London Lon-don and Washington. To open the river now and to meet the demands of the two powers would causa them to "lose face" with the gov- |