The quarterly review, "Pacific Affairs," now edited by Mr, Owen Lattimore, gives in its latest (March) issue an interesting study of "The Naval Arm of Diplomacy in the Pacific" by Mr. H, Th. de Booy, a retired Netherlands naval emeer. Mr. Jde Booy reviews the positions of the various powers concerned in the Pacific, in the light of naval strategy and political considerations. brings to the subject special information and an acute perception of the psychological factors likely to affect the problem. He properly dis counts alarmist theories and points out thet responsible Japanese states men have veen the necessity for a better Understanding: with the United States fand Great Britain. For the Western powers, however, whose chief Prob: Tem is" the effort to keep up thelt. standards of living, the utiook 1s full fof anxiety, They have to. deal with tween communist expansionism on the continent of Asia and the economic imperialism of Japan, which is me Kimately "dependent oh naval power, 'To the maintenance' of this balance nation is more sensitive than Hole stem Creer ground Brith Prag tu the South $240.00 for the Hkone Barras
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