Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1916-11-01
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note: WESTERN CLARION The Official Organ of the Socialist Party of Canada. NO. 786 VANCOUVER,vB.C, NOVEMBER, 1916 MONTHLY, 5C. JAPAN AND The diplomatic AMERICA . foam which attaches itself to the various moves connected with World Politics and International Commerce has already commenced to effervesce with respect to the relations of Japan and the U. S. A., one to the other. ,Count Okuma, who openly resisted a "policy of aggression in China" has been succeeded in the capacity of Premier, by Marshall Teranchi, who will no doubt, proceed immediately to grasp "the opportunity of a thousand years.'' Americav is alarmed and England—de'eply -interested. The American Press wonders what this move portends, 'and is disapointed in that the redundant Foreign Minister of Britain, Grey, who is as silent when necessary as he is at other times loquacious, did not make reference to this when touching upon the problems arising from the surreptitious visit of the U—53 in "Western Atlantic waters. The fact of the matter .is, that Japan like her glorious ally Great Britain, can no longer hold her place in the forefront of the nations, and still maintain that Salisburian policy of majestic isolation. Already the trade which "we" were to appropriate from Germany has, somehow, become possessed by Japan to a great extent, while Japan >and Uncle Sam vie each with the other in a game of diplomatic seesaw, meanwhile carefully watching undeveloped, uncultured, unexplor-^ ed China, in order that possible loot shall not be allowed to slip unnoticed by. America's policy in China is one dictated by the exigencies of American capitalist interests. Therefore hordes of engineers and prospectors periodically cross thie rolling Pacific with their faces toward the setting sun, and Japan's policy is • made to a like order—with the boot on the other foot, of course. The Japanese press, as was to be expected, points out that American inso- m lence (that is, American advance the capitalist sense) can not be Ion e…
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language: English
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publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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