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Events are making it increasingly evident to the world that Japan has reached an acute phase of one of the most momentous crises she has faced since the restoration of the Imperial House. The deaths within the month of two of her ablest statesmen of the old school,--Prince Yamagata and Marquis Okuma; the nationwide tenseness over the trial of the late Premier Hara's assassin in Tokio, have thrown into sharp relief the vast struggle going on beneath the surface in Japan...
...leaders who have brought about this transformation,--the makers of modern Japan,--have been the Genre, the "Elder Statesmen". Few if any of them are new left, and the gap left by the death of the Empire's two greatest is almost beyond repair. General Tanaka, the logical successor to Prince Yamagata as military leader, cannot represent the Choshn clan, which has traditionally supplied leaders of the military party. Viscount Kiyoura has succeeded the late Prince as President of the Privy Council, but he can never succeed to his hold on the destinies of the nation...
...noblest figure in our political life since Lincoln. What his enemies believe is too familiar to be repeated. Argument is useless until the historians have weighed the facts. We are still too close to the events and personalities of the world war, and all contemporary verdicts upon statesmen are notoriously fallible...
...ratified by the Dail Eireann, and the Irish Free State has come into existence. The ghosts of a long line of Irish patriots should be laid, and something akin to permanent peace brought to the land of Killarney. The treaty embodies practically every point for which Irish orators and statesmen have labored since before the time of Gladstone, even down to an acceptable settlement of the status of Ulster...
...Armaments Conference has brought to Washington a notable assemblage of statesmen. In their wake, like a flock of gulls behind an ocean steamer, follows a motley array of attaches, unofficial representatives and newspaper correspondents. From this last group most of our impressions of the Conference must come, and on them to a great extent depends its favorable reception by the people of the countries involved. It it especially desirable, then, that their reports should be free from personal prejudice...