Tokyo, March 25. international contest for the supremacy of the Pacific among Japan, the United States, Netherlands as adjuncts) and Sot ed in a recent issue of the Britain (with France and the jet Russia is interestingly review-you Jeho" (Current Events), published by the Tokyo "Nichinichi.
The writer describes Japan, the northwest corner of the Pacific, as hemmed in on all sides by the other countries mentioned, who are her potent enemies, yet she is inflexibly determined to'maintain her position and fulfil the mission a igned to her by the Age of the Pacific, to establish a new order in East Asia and permanent peace in the Pacific.
The article, in translation, is as follows The international contest for supremacy in the Pacific becomes more and more keen. In_ polities, economies, ideology and armaments, the Pacific has become the main field "of competition among the world's powers.
'Thirty' years ago President Theo-dare Roosevelt declared that the Age of the Mediterranean ceased with he discovery of America, that the Age of the Auantic had reached Lis climax, and that the Age of the Paeifle, the greatest of all, was just dawning. AS a matter of fact, with the World way as the turning-point, the pivot of the world's activitic changed from the Atlantic to the
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