Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1945 — Page 32

FRIDAY, OCT. 5, 1048

LONG NIP TRADITION

Pattern for Emperor's Meekness Today Is Traced to

Course of an Ancestor.

By EDWARD J. BYNG

Japanese propaganda broadcasts have claimed that the atomic bomb is mainly responsible for Nippon's hatred for America. Actually hostility toward the West, including the U. 8. A, is a time-honored

tradition in Japan. ' However, through the intermediary of Matthew Calbraith Perry in 1853-54, Townsend Harris in 1858, and Douglas MacArthur in 1045, Providence seems to have chosen] America for the key role in every| Delivering to the Japanese decisive victory over Japan's age-old | authorities letters addressed to the anti-foreign policy. | Emperor hy President Millard FillThe West's first contact with Nip-| more, Perry announced his return pon occurred in 1542 by pure ac-| in the following spring, cident. A Chinese junk - carrying] Brought Home Treaty three Portuguese was blown oft its) On his second visit in Pebruary, course from Siam to Macao in|

China and forced to land in Japan, | men, anchored near Yokohama

This first visit by Occidentals soon and, thanks to his judicious display led to brisk trade between the Jap-| of both strength and diplomacy, the anese and the Portuguese, Spanish,! commodore was ablé to sail home British and Deb Teonhl |with Japan's first international Missionary Trouble ! {treaty in his pocket. A few years later Portuguese and The treaty guaranteed kind treatSpaaish priests Started musslonary | ent to shipwrecked American sailwork in Japan, but this roused Nip=| or and granted U. 8. vessels the | ponese fears of Western aggression. | ight to obtain stores and provisions Massacres of European and Jap-|in Japan, and to anchor in the ports anese Christians followed gnd, in/of Shimoda and Hakodate, ’ 1638, the Shogun issued an edict] PerTVs steam-propelled men-of-

proclaiming the complete isolation | of Nippon from the outer world. | Under pain of instant death the Nipponese were forbidden to leave) their country. No Japanese, and especially no samural, was per-| mitted to acquire foreign learning. | Nobody was allowed to build or navigate a ship bigger than neces-| sary for “sailing in the shadow of; the coast.” i. e., bigger than coastal |

shipping craft, {Japan and the modern ‘world’s first pive conference. ;

Instant execution awaited every

foreigner who set foot on Japanese Mikado's realm. On July 4, 1859 the heen studying the meaning of

sal. This airtight isolation from | the rest of the world lasted some 20) years, up to Commodore) Matthew Oalbraith Perry's arrival fn Japan in 1853, Oddly enough, the Dutch whose | representatives had won the con-| fidence of the Shogun, were the! only foreigners exempted from the! provisions of the edict of isolation. !

Kept Dutch on Island !

But they had to submit to the] most humiliating conditions. For! over 200 years they were restricted) to’ Deshima, a tiny Island in Nagasaki bay. No Dutchman was! permitted to set foot on the Japanese mainland without special authorization; their wares were taken to Japan and marketed by Japanese middlemen, Dutchmen were not even allowed | burial in Japanese soil. No male] Japanese could visit a Dutchman in| his house and “comfort girls” were | the only women allowed inside the Dutch settlement, It was America's destiny to inflict | the mortal blow upon Japan's policy | of isolation 92 years before giving Nippon's militarism the coup de grace, On July 9 ,1853, illustrating history repeats itself, Commodore |

war with their powerful guns had a similar psychologic effect upon Japan's ruling class as had the] atomic bomb 92 years later. The Japanese leaders professed a fervent desire to be co-operative. In 1858 commercial relations hetween the United States and Nippon were established through a treaty negotiated by Townsend Har-

HATE OF FOREIGNER “2:22.

LONDON, Oct. 5 (U. P.).~Pesence of British Lt. Clifton James, Field Marshal Montgomery's “per= fect double,” in Algiers just before D-day tricked German agents into reporting that. Montgomery had left his invasion base, the Daily Express sald yesterday. The newspaper said intelligence officers requisitiohed James and briefed him to impersonate Mont« gomery after they learned James had been cheered at a party when soldiers mistook him for the field marshal, Posing as Montgomery, James was sent to Algiers to be received officially at a public ceremony by Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. He was driven through the city's streets with Wilson's - aides and an American escort, The newspaper said German agents informed Berlin that Montgomery was in Algiers and ‘evidence has since been unearthed that D-day took the ‘enemy by surprise.” James had lost a finger on his saluting hand in world war I but a false finger was built to replace it before he was sent on the mission,

BIg 5 FIASCO LLIN NAMES?

Says This Expert.

NEW YORK, Oct.5 (U, P.) —Curtis Adler, who can. do more things with a name than most folks can do with a deck of cards, has an

ris, first U. 8. consul general to

permanent representative in the]

port of Yokohama was formally

opened to American ships and trade. Anti-Foreign Intrigue.

Through their amazing resemblancé to recent events in Japan, the years immediately following the first opening of Yokohama to the Americans carry a lesson of decisive importance for the America of today, Hardly had the treaties with the United States been signed when the emperor's court at Kyoto became the center of furious antiforeign intrigue, - Under the direct influence of the | propaganda that emanated from | the Mikado's entourage, several western visitors to Japan were murdered, A furious political tug-of-war between the Emperor and the Shogunate resulted. It ended in 1867] with the downfall and definite aboli- | tion of the institution of the S8hogunate, The Emperor now assumed temporal power in Japan, but soon was forced to realize that continued open hostility to the Western powers would lead to national suicide. Thereupon, creating an amazing analogy to the present-day policy of his grandson Hirohito, Emperor

Perry's two battleships and two Mutsuhito changed his official atsloops threw anchor in Tokyo Bay. titude practically overnight.

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names for the past 23 years and he fully agrees with Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov’s reported complaint that he could deal better with Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden than with U, 8, Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes or Britain's Ernest Bevin. “Sure,” Adler sald. “It’s all right there in their names.” For instance, he said, Cordell is Celtic and means “token on which a man takes an oath” while Hull is Norman and means “hill” or a high place. ; Together they obviously mean according to Adler, that Hull is a trustworthy man who can deal with people both high and low. Anthony is Latin and means “full of praise for others” while Eden is from the Hebrew and means “paradise” or “happiness.” “Such a. person is splendid at giv-. ing or taking,” Adler sald, “You couldn't find a better name for a diplomat.” Means ‘Driving Force’ Viacheslav means “to yield power,” while Molotov means “hammer.” “Together,” Adler said, “they mean a driving force toward eternal glory.” On the other hand, he pointed out somewhat glumly that Ernest comes from the Teutonic and means “serious.” Bevin, originally Welch, means “the son of Evan,” which is Welch for John. “In fact, it means Johnson,” said Adler. James is from the English and was a Biblical nickname for Jacob meaning “driver of good bargains.” Francis is the champion of freedom. Byrnes is from the AngloSaxon and means a good fighter, “Therefore it's easy to see why Hull and Eden were the better negotiators,” Adler said. “Mr. Byrnes’ name indicates a man who is both honest and good, but one perhaps who drives too directly for his bargain,” he said. “Mr. Bevin's surname has no distinction, and his first name is one of stubborn seriousness.” “Adler shrugged and sighed, “Well, that speaks for itself, doesn't it?”

HOOSIER NAMED T0 SUCCEED MNUTT

WASHINGTON, Oct. § (U. P.) — President Truman has taken another step toward looking out for veterans, He has named as the nation's new federal security administrator Watson B. Miller, a man who for 18 years guided veterans’ rehabilitation work for the American Legion, Miller, 66, was named to the job by Mr. Truman Tuesday to replace Paul V. McNutt, who is now high commissioner. to - the Philippines. Like McNutt, Miller is a Hoosier. Born in Indiana, he built schools in South America before the last war, in which he served as a captain of motor transport, After the war he became national rehabilitation director of the Legion, becoming acquainted with MeNutt, who was at one time national commander, He held that job for 18 years and came to work as McNutt's assistant in 1041 at MecNutt's request, For the past few years Miller has been geting head -of FSA due to -McNutt's pre-occupation with his job as war manpower chief. He is married and has a son 10, and a married stepdaughter. : . The federal security agency is the overall agency combining government bodies aimed at promoting social and economic security, educational opportunity ‘and national health.

FRATERNITY COUNCIL OFFICERS ELECTED

Election of Russell William Miller, Butler university junior, as presi-

on the Fairview campus was announced lay. Sp A resident of Harrisburg, Pa, Mr.| Miller ‘will hold office for the rest]

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