The November issue of the New East, edited in Tokyo
by Mr. J. W. Robertson-Scott, contains some instructive passages from the Japanese newspaper comments on the unofficial French suggestion that Japan should send troops to Europe. The Japanese Press was unanimous in rejecting the proposal as undesirable and impos- sible. An article refuting point by point " Some Common Errors about India" in Japanese newspaper articles shows how useful the Nero East will be in informing the Japanese public. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw contributes " My Message to Japan," in which he refers to our outspoken pleasure at the fall of the Tsardom in Russia, and warns " our Japanese friends that only in so far as Japan makes itself felt in the West as a socially advanced State will it gain the confidence of its Western Allies." " All our silly romantic, admir. ations and enthusiasms would evaporate in an instant if we saw Japan organizing the East, not as a socially advanced State, but as an aggressive and conquering Empire."
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