By the policy of civilization the educated people of Asia have been forced to separate from the masses. The resulting disunion furthers Western imperialism and prevents the small Asiatic countries from gaining solidarity.

Japan made a successful imitation of the Western civilization and passed examination in the Russo-Japanese War. She now proudly holds mandates alongside the British and the French.

Turkey recently underwent a critical examination and emerged successfully by killing those who would impose on her liberties. She will soon become a full fledged member of the League.

Turken will gain solidarity by siding against India because mercenary Indian Moslems fought against Turkey in the British armies.

America is helping China, not because she is any more humanitarian than other Westerners, but because she is at present faced with an open competition with Japan for industrial leadership in China. The Chinese hate the Jaanese and America is exploiting that hatred. American investments in China made it necessary for President Coolidge to consider the Chinese claims and check the British in their attempts to dominate China in the recent troubles concerning extra-territorial rights.

America and Australia have already openly declared their closed-door policy in so far as the Asiatics are concerned. This superiority complex is no more a matter of private behavior, but is writ large in the laws of their lands.

It is becoming more and more obvious that Western people are forcing their Eastern brethren to drop their ways and methods, but in the victory which they seem to be winning they are creating situations which will make for a more terrible war. If every time an incident, great or small, arises, the powerful nations resort to violence, there can be no peace. Nicaragua, Haiti, Amritsar, Rubr, Corfu, Egypt all involved a resort, to force upon the part of the great and powerful nations against the unarmed and helpless. In all of these instances the aggressor nation was strong enough and powerful enough to have invoked conciliation, adjustment, and arbitration, and thus to have set examples and established precedents more valuable to the cause of peace than any peace plan.

Is it to be wondered at that Asiatics look askance at the League of Nations and want more proof that it will be a help rather than their undoer? If the present attitude toward Asiatics does not change then Asia for Asiatics will be a justifiable slogan.