BRITAIN, AMERICA, AND JAPAN.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sut,—I have only now seen your issue of August 13th containing an excellent letter on "Britain, America, and Japan" from my old and valued friend, that doughty champion of justice and fair play, Mr. R. B. Marston, and your number of August 20th, in which Mr. C. E. Geddes, of Bournemouth, ably supports Mr., Marston's views. Mr. Marston quotes at length from a leading article on " The Coming International Parley " that appeared in the July 16th issue of the Argonaut of San Francisco, a periodical praised by you, as he points out, for its " honesty of purpose and independence as well as for its ability." This statement is confirmed by your editorial note to Mr. Marston's letter. Surely you might with truth have added to the other characteristics of the Argonaut its cool impudence. In the article quoted it says that the forthcoming conference at Washington " should first of all outline the limits of Japanese pretension. It should instruct her as to what she may and what she may not do in the Orient." I wonder what the Argonaut of San Francisco would have said if Japan had sum- moned a conference to meet in Tokio for the purpose of " instructing " the United States of America as to what they " may and what they may not do"!—I am, Sir, &c.,
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