Deipite the conviction of many foreign observers that the independence of the Philippines will inevitably result in control by Japan, there are no particularly alarming evidences of Japanese penetration, according to survey by the Institute of Foreign Relations.
Two specific reasons are given by the Institute for minimizing the possibilities of Japanese desire to dom-mate. either by economic penetration or actual possessions, the present Philippine Commonwealth once it has become entirely free and independent of American protection, states United Press, The first of these lies in the do-mastic situation at home. Inal three of her previous efforts to solve he: various needs by foreign adventure, Korea, Taiwan and Manchuria, Japan has still failed to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that is necessary to her needs.
As a consequence, the enormous expense' necessary to maintain herself on the Asiatic mainland together with the marked insecurity of her position there has caused such discontent at home, and unrest within the empire itself, that any large-scale encroachment, either economic or military, upon a newly independent Philippines, would, the Institute believes, find little support at home.
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