Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring [PAGE 54]

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the I nits of it, British and \UHM ms mutualh n ich tin ailure to cooperate, British appeasers appr u I have ex| Ii div< i the Japanese attent n un Vustralia to the \ >ntinent Some Englishmen and 1 enehmen even hop i that it lapan should 1 allowed to take north China, Britain might be able to take ntral China, and France south China, One member • the Lea ie ol Nations obbed anothei member and the League invr uted, reported, de hated, disapproved, and left the robber in po ion. Some Americans in recent vears en airaged lanan wreath b> ;ivoriug a polio of "scuttle That is to saw the> recommended that the United States withdraw from the Philippine Islands, abandon their vestments in the whole of eastern \,sia, draw kick to Hawaii, and reh on the Pacific Q\ an and the providence ol God foi prot lion Perhaps Embassador William K, Castle held such a view when aftei tlu Naval Conferenct of 1930 he stated publicl) What \meri i must learn and can far mon isil> learn in this a n mfereiu trust and ^ood will is that just h uuse Japan's iniei ;ts Iv a: vital, that just becan Japan's trade with China is ol parunuum nportan . lapan must and will be the guardian oi peace in the 1 \ ei \ different was the opinion ot Paul \ . McNutt, formerh American High Commissioner in the Philippine expn I on Januar) 3, 1942: fhe fall ol Manila stands as .m indictment ot the international think it of educated Americans, Puerile pacifism, fear ot offending the lapa nese we were arming for tlu ittack, and iak. onon\) kept us from makin; Wake. Guam, and Manila the impi >nahlc fortn > the) should ha\ Thus lapan has been incited toward and strengthen* l for \\\ sion upon all her neighbors b) some ot those whom she now attack ml would despoil, \ in Finally, one underlying cause oi the war in the Far 1 ast that i»an has mistakenl) feared American imperialism I In own bellicose and predator) psychology has led her tr attribute unethii imilar to us. One cannot den) that some events might awaken her suspicions, A Professor Kenneth Latourette said in 1°1° ln ih< MII ol a hundred yeai oi to the Unit i Star hail jumped the Mississippi in- cm tl the Rocki . occupied the Pacific slop* and n,( [apan war with China had spanned the Pacific, o upyin^ Hawaii < nd ih« Philippine and was king in\ itment in Chin mini and

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