Cocky Japan is again attempting to stir up strife in the highly unstable Pacific area, Following her egotistical demands for equality with Britain and the United States, she now announces a plan for strict government control of a monopolistic nature over the oil business of her sponsored empire in Manchukuo. Not only does this policy contravene the "open door" provisions of the Washington Treaty but it also demonstrates Japan's willingness to risk the hostility of the great nations by attacking them in their vulnerable spot--their purses.

The history of the Far East during the past two decades has been a repeated tale of Japanese aggression and attempts to gain complete hogemony in the Eastern Asian and western Pacific areas. While China was rent with civil dissension and the world was engaged in the fatal European struggle, Japan attempted to force upon the Chinese a treaty which would have impaired their territorial and political integrity. only American threats of armed hostility thwarted Nipponese ambition. Her Siberian expedition, her reluctance to agree to the Washington treaty, her refusal to cooperate in Pacific financial and teriff policies, all give evidence of a political state of mind fatal to Pacific stability. Flouting all the nations of the earth by breaking all previous treaties, she seized Manchuria from a recumbent China. And now after her saber-rattling naval announcement, she attempts to monopolize Manchurian oil fields and to drive out American, British and Dutch interests represented by the Standard Oil, Royal Shell and other companies.

Japan defies the Western world to do more than pen high-sounding diplomatic protests against her actions. She relies on the current terror throughout the world of military hostility and takes heart at any disturbances in Europe which may divert the attention of the world from her amibitious schemes in the pacific. The United States and Europe must either cooperate in taking a definitely hostile stand against further Japanese aggression if they intend to retain their authority unimpaired, or be prepared to resign it to Japanese militarists forthwith.