"We are all apt to overlook the immense importance of the Far East, and the fact that there is no part which affects the issues of the world's peace and prosperity more vitally," said Professor Roxby (Professor ¢f Geography Liverpool University), in addressing the Liverpool Branch of the League of Nations Union, at the Royal Institution, on the subject of "The Pacific and Far Eastern Settle-
The three great problems of the Far East, said Professor Roxby, were the future economic and political status of China and its re lation to Japan on the one side, and the Western industrial. nations and America on the other; the competition of the white and yellow peoples in the world's markets; and the Oriental immigration into lands owned or controlled by white people. These problems were acute before the war, but the war had altered scme of the phases.
Professor Roxby referred events leading up to the position of the country to-day, with Japan in practical control of Korea and Shantung. Japan had, he said, been taught a thoroughly bad lesson by the Western Powers, and she had not forgotten it. It was not surprising if she moved warily be fore she was convinced that the Western Powers had changed their attitude.
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