AMERICA, JAPAN AND lab PROTOCOL
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Relative to your recent editorial on the League Protocol and its Japanese amendment, perhaps the following brief comment may interest you. Evidently you have persuaded yourself that the. Japanese amendment is innocuous, and possibly you may be right ; but I assure you that it would be impossible to induce Americans to take this view. We Americans know that Japan is hostile to us, and we do not place much confidence in the friendship of European nations, for the reason that we know that these nations consider our immigration and high tariff laws injurious to their interests. In natural consequence, the adoption of the Protocol with the Japanese amendment unaltered would be interpreted here to mean the first step in the formation of a Japanese- European coalition to foPee a change in these laws. I am very confident that you will agree with me that the cause of world peace will be best aided by maintaining warm friendshin between Fland and America. If so, do you not think it would be wise to consider carefully the possible effect upon American opinion of any action by England relating to the League before advocating the same ?—I am,
Sir, &c., BENJ. P. lioarox. 322 North Kenilworth Avenue, Oak Park, Ills., U.S.A. Novem5er 25th.
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