These problems include the "Open Door" policy in China; the security of the Philippines both in the imme-into future and after independence: the protection of United States trade routes to the East Indies, which recently have been the only source Of strategic raw materials for the United Slates; the security of Aus {tella; and the development of trans Paeflie aviation including possible new Poche bases to protect new tle routes, Unofficial experts believed the Canton and Enderbury Islands Settle ment might be the first Instance of ever-spreading course of parallel Anglo-American action in the Pacafic.
'With American interest in' the Pacific now greater than at any other time in United States history, the "Government of the United States, it was believed, may consult Britain for a redefinition of each Power's rights in the Far Bast. This will be essential upon the conclusion of Japanese military opera tions in China, it was pointed out.
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