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h w.ii ive us tl - Philippine Islands, I \ hat : let them etcly free in 1 \\ h « ; il intei 3 in I Tiina sin< * i nial daj ncl m w I sin < 1844, We acquii I the Aleutian Islands in It the Philippin 1898 tnd I law.ui in 1900, fn i nl dt i Vn i bu have sold I ba . sewinj machines, phon pi md \ lucts and have bought whatevei I hina h II. Kdu nthi pists hav( staffed and endows kind i hie ma\ add thai Vmeri m busin< men and m m I w rked with similar energy in lapan. Actually, however, our westward movenn 't { ownership pr. ( all} stopped ist f the I ad Pacific >cean, while our i 1. ultural, and religious interests were nol thus limit I. I rha| th Japanese, with their claims oi special >nomic inter in I hina an t' ir nationalistic Shinto religion, have I 1 full) as much r 1 nUnent a. linst our peaceful penetration as though it had 1 n politi d >

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Rut Japan has wholh mistaken tl character of the real Amerii n danger, which she has been building up thi igh the d< Th w« Id outlook of her militarist with its forcible disrei 1 f the rights of other peoples to fre lorn and self-rule, with its infinite hruilitv and nonmoral greed, with its totalitarian enslavement of e> tinJapanese p< pie. and with its ingrained opposition I I istian prinles, is whollj incompatible with the Ann m world utl< >k, The tw cannot co exist on the same planet, now so much redu< 1 in - t by the internal combustion engine and the radio. Perhaj in a way the Ja| nes< militarists had more I resight than we, when they pre• I for all thest years to fight us. But lackin mon pro! und J r they have paved the way for their own d< fraction; they is< the ( nth* > seem inevitable and irreducible; one system tin ther

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impei ilism is thoroughly beaten and destroy lapan must I ished back from the Philippine from tin Dutch 1-a>t indie

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even fi in Korea and I irmosa sin these are not inhabi d 1\\ Jaj ir i \ll t! |H p] must be t fn (Ultimately, n doubt, the) will I i fi from l\ui<»p< ii as well .is from Japane imp dism M n the air power the air of the world is one unit; the naval tl ns and the s is an one unit; and ultimately tlu < rnati< il land powei of the world must I taken in hand b> tin I intr.l > itions, so that nol lapan noi rmany ne m\ otlu a

ill e\ (i tin ruptll tl" C oi mankind.