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Show Not Very Favorably Disposed Toward America and the Americans By COUNT M. SOYESHIMA, Prominent Publicist of Japan. I was not very favorably disposed toward America and Americans. I did not like Americans because most of them are in fact most arrogant arro-gant imperialists while they have constantly justice and humanity in their mouths. While they set themselves up as ardent champions of justice they really are the devotees of the outrageous and brazen-faced Monroe doctrine. While Americans are kind hearted on the one hand, they are extremely ex-tremely selfish on the other. While the military authorities of America are so busily engaged in the amplification of armaments, however, it appears that the majority of American people are opposed to the idea of war, and in my opinion this is quite as it should be, for a war between America and Japan would be like a fight between a tiger and a shark, flowever strong the tiger may be, it cannot attack the shark, nor can the shark fasten a quarrel on the tiger whatever hatred the former may conceive against the latter. Neither of the two powers can take the aggressive with any prospect of success. |