New York, Jan. 26.
The expiration of the Japanese-American trade agreement today is only the beginning of the solution of America's Far Eastern problem, Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, retired, former Commander-in-Chief of the US. Asiatic Fleet, said yesterday.
Admiral Yarnell said he would welcome any limitations on the shipment of war materials to Japan, but urged that an international plan' give Japan sufficient trade outlets in the Pacific to absorb the energy she is now expending in China.
The Admiral proposed a new écon0- mic map of the Pacific in which the United States, Britain, France and the Netherlands would relinquish some special interests to Japan, He predicted that with equal trading opportunities in India, French Indo-China, the East Indies, and the Phillppines, the liberal, non-militarist forces within Japan would be able to check the plans of the Japanese military—United Press,
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