The outstanding fact as regards Britain and America in the Far Esst was that their major interests were identical. Both were anxious for peace, end for the resumption of normal activities in trade and all other fields. And yet it had to be admitted that there were in America serious &nd persistent suspicions of British imperial and foreign policy. For years past a big section of the Americam press had been repeating hat powerful interests in Britain were st work with the aim of getting the United States embroiled in he Far East, as the likeliest way of achieving the protection of British rade and investments.
The bare mention of that iden hould be sufficient to dispose of it. Who could be so simple in these days is to believe that any interests over-cas could be protected or restored ey war? The Englishman, or the Americen, who did not see that the United States would always be a great Pacific Power must be unaccustomed to looking at the map. The geographic position of North America is a decisive world reality. It makes certain the fact that the policy of the United States in the Far East must be her own policy, entirely American. There was one other, and a most distinctive, aspect of the affair. The great American enterprises of social service—missions, hospitals, schools, colleges, relief committees now rating to the admiration of all in-
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