In guaranteed fast colours Suitable for all purposes, at very reasonable prices At Washington in 1922 the United States agreed to disarm completely west of a line that runs north and south from Alaska through Hawaii. Partly responsible for that agreement was Japan's acceptance of a low ratio and her agreement to respect the ter-Titorial integrity of China. Equally responsible was the feeling of the general public in America that the Far East should be left to settle its own affairs.
This was easy when America's equal trading rights were felt to be guaranteed under the Washington treaties. Since then, as a further sign that the United States has little interest in the Far East, Congress passed the Philippine Independence bill despite the fact that the Secretary of State at the time, Mr. Henry Stimson, begged them not to, since he felt it would harm his diplomatic policy in respect to Manchovkuo. Congress has also passed a neutrality law under which America could do nothing to uphold the Nine Power Treaty which she signed and which compelled Japan and China to be treated upon the same legal footing.
But while Congress has been following this definitely isolationist policy and attempting by legislation to bind the Administration to the same policy, the Administration has refused to be bound and has by devious and hidden paths striven to circumvent the plain intention of the peoples' representatives. Despite the Neutrality Act China has obtained supplies of arms and munitions, while by the device of bringing moral pressure to bear the Japanese have been discriminated against so that today no American aeroplane or munitions manufacturer dare apply at the State Department for a licence to expórt to Japan on pain of being pilloried in the press as a moral leper, to the obvious detriment of his own domestic business. China has also been lent money to finance the purchase of trucks and gasolene essential to carrying on the war, while her silver has been purchased to provide her with direct credits for necessary purchases.
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Then on top of this came the suggestion to "fortify" Guam. Was the Administration seeking to embroil the United States in war by deliberately planting a dagger close to the heart of the Japanese Empire? Congress might have accepted the suggestion that the "naval frontier' in the Pacific should be pushed beyond the Alaska-Hawaii line to a line running nearly 1,000 miles further east, through Midway Island, Wake Island, Canton Island (the ownership of which is still vested jointly in the U.S. and Britain) and Rose Island. But when this Guam salient yet another thousand miles further East was proposed, they rebelled.
On the other hand there are some Congressmen who do not take such an extreme isolationist view. So long as Japan's ambitions are confined to the Chinese mainland they are ready to denounce Japanese aggression, but do nothing to check it. But they consider that Japan no longer limits her ambition to the Asiatic Mainland. They feel che has cast her eyes upon the Phillipines and the Dutch East Indies.
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