cover image: Asia. January 1940

Premium

20.500.12592/4fz9c2

Asia. January 1940

1940

The urge to the South was brought to the fore again in Tokyo by expasionist writers who predicted a war in the Pacific with the Dutch and British helpless the United States anemic and Japan seizing the Philipines and especially the oil of the Netherlands Indies. [...] At the celebration of the annivesary of the Soviet Revolution Premier Molotov had said that Russia would continue an "undeviating policy of peace." The Red army made the biggest military display in its history while to the surprise of spectators Maxim Litvinov the former Foreign Commissar supposedly out of favor stood beside Stalin to review the parade from Lenin's tomb. [...] The foundation of the first civil resistance under the then known name of passive resistance was laid ity accident at a meeting of Indians in Johannesburg in 1906 convened for the purpose of finding the means of combating the Anti-Asiatic measure of those days. [...] But both in this list and in the unconscious assumptions of the article so far as one can see there is no place for the major interest of the United States in the Far East which is no different front the major interest of the United States anywhere and which is an intangible but none the less real interest: namely that lawful processes shall gain rather than lose in prestige and power. [...] The answer is very simple: defeats and retreats knocked out of their heads the bluster of the postwar years and they went back to their traditional nineteenth-cetury policy of championing the interests of the small Asiatic states against the ambitions of major aggressors.
history
Pages
61
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120323
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-1 Richard Walsh view
The Month in the Orient
2-2 Richard Walsh view
Trade Currents
3-3 Eliot Janeway view
The Asia Mail
4-6 Eliot Janeway view
Russia at Britain’s Gates
7-10 Albert Viton view
Australian Self-Reliance
11-14 Albert Grattan view
Fools’ Gold
15-16 Eliot Janeway view
The Sungpan Valley Awakes
17-21 Rewi Alley view
Tale of a Spinning Wheel
21-24 Lewis Smythe view
A New Dalai Lama is Found
25-29 James Shen view
The Bratachari Movement
30-35 Ramananda Chatterjee view
Manchuria-A Pattern of the “New Order in East Asia”
36-39 Dorothy Orchard view
Facing Facts About A Far Eastern Peace Settlement
40-46 T. A. Bisson view
Test Diggings in Syria
47-52 Robert Braidwood view
Asia Book-Shelf
53-56 Robert Braidwood view
Backmatter
i-ii Robert Braidwood view

Related Topics

All