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Show Japan's Peace Tersis It '"ill probably amuse some Amer .'ans to know that two Japanese Jap-anese experts have drawn up a list o conditions to be imposed ' after the United States has sur-icnde sur-icnde ed." The application of the requirements require-ments is afar, we admit, but it is intei..ting to know the kind of peace he Japanese have in mind. Accor ling to the Japanese Domei Agen :y, Rear Admiral Tonetsugu ;nd Yasei Nishiya, a financial expert, drew up the proposed terms. To guarantee the effectiveness of the conditions, a ten-year "strict surveillance" of this nation na-tion is proposed, with confiscation confisca-tion of all our naval ships -and ocean liners, the razing of all bases and training stations, restrict' re-strict' on of steel and oil production produc-tion .''-id destruction of all shipyards ship-yards except those building river and coastal vessels. The expense of taking over would be borne by the United I States and if any ships should I be settled or damaged, we are ita pa ten times their construc-t construc-t ion ( ost. Thi ;e terms , aTe fairly plain and .somewhat conclusive but they epresent only the contribution contribu-tion of the Japanese admiral, j The i .nancial expert adds a few ' ideas explaining the necessity 1 ' for the creation of a political authority in this country free from economic influences and modeled after the "pure sovereignty sover-eignty of Japan." While these "terms" are not official, they go far enough to justify almost any application of sanctions to Japan. The fact that the Japanese talk of terms while reeling from reverses indicates that the medicine would be worse if victory inspires Japanese treaty writers. |