The “Times”, quoting an article published in the “Munich Neuste Machrichten” which criticised noisy schools of publicists in Berlin who have been urging the creation of a European Continental League from Berlin to Tokio so that the world shall not become Anglo Saxon, says the indiscretion of the Bavarian newspaper reveals what the Allied statesmen have long known, that one of the objects of German policy is to realise a scheme which will embroil Japan with the United States and western Allies in order to deal with her at leisure. Germany may not know as all responsible Allied statesmen know that the situation created in Russia by the conclusion of a separate peace has not taken the Japanese Government by surprise. “The possibility that Germanophil tendencies in Imperial Russia might bring about a separate Russo-German peace caused the responsible directors of Japanese policy more than a year ago to ponder the action that might become imperative in the Far East if Russia proved false to her pledges. Unless we are gravely mistaken in our estimate of the Japanese character the situation that has now arisen will appeal to the statesmen in Tokio no less urgently. Japan as a true and helpful Ally may be trusted to face the present position unflinchingly and at the moment may be at hand for her Allies to support her in any action she may feel bound to undertake for the protection of her and their interests.”
