The Archive · 1920

The Great Asia Doctrine

New View on an Old Political Campaign

The "Peking Leader" is publishing an account of a society organized in Mukden for the propagation of "Lhe Great Asia Doctrine"—Asia for the Asiatics. In the first article, the writer gives some details of the organs zation, which ambitiously endeavour to embrace the whole of Asia at 'a dollar a head, mem-hership fee. The "Great Asia Doctrine? is apparently contain ed in the following article.

*The standard of civilization of the Asiatic countries is far below that of the European and American states. The difference in the standard of civilization naturally results in the diversity of opinions and the diversity of opinions is the main cause of war. When the war comes to a close all misunderstandings will have been removed and as misunderstandings have been removed there will he progress civilization, growth in industry and development of all natural reranrees, innrensing the peoples' Meesings and the ronntries' nrosnovity. Tf this is disreenrded and ench adheres to its own biassed views, if each works against the other, attempting to seize small profits at the present and ignoring the grest dangers in store in the future, serious troubles. both internal and external, will at once rise, rud all of them will ho beset by wolves in the front and ticers in the roar. Ts this not dreadful?

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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