President Roosevelt has _always taken an" interest in Far Eastern affairs, partly because his ancestors were engaged - in the China trade. He followed therefore with particular attention the Japanese invasion of China and the threat to the Open Door policy. Since American public opinion has never been so averse to ce-operative action in the Far East it has to similor action in Europe the President attempted in October to rally the country to a vigorous policy, Despite large scale military operations he refused to invoke the Neutrality Act (which would have: pressed more hardly upon China th Japan) and on October 5 in Chicago ihe advocated "quarantine" for aggres-
"The public reaction to the-quarantine speech was disappointing and the American participation at the
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