THE PROBLEM OF JAPAN 1 ?
.[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of January 3rd Captain keiinedy criticises a passage in my_ review of his :book, The Problem of Japan. He says that I was mistaken in accusing him of failure to draw
_the conclusion that the necessary adjuStmentS in the Far . Eastern situation can only be effected, " with justice and • safety to mankind as a whole, by means of international . .
Agreement.".. The misunderstanding. is apparently due to the fact that we are using the term." international agreement " to mean different things. In the review I used it to Mean a method based on the willingness of the "satiated " -PoWerS to grant concessions, economic or territorial', to Japan in recogni- tion of her present requirements and, in return, a fulfilinent . by Japan of her international obligationS. The type of " inter- national agreement " for whiCh CaPtain Kennedy 'plea& is very different. He suggests. that Great Britain- and the United States should, in the hope.Ofeheeking Japan's adVance in Asia, negotiate an agreement With her by which they recog- nise her claim to territory recently won by foree of arms and her right to .exact certain concessions frcim ChMa.
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