Should Japan succeed in dominate ing China, American interests in that part of the world eventually would fe eliminated. Because she is fighting the Axis conception of a new world order based on force, China really is fighting the United States battle. tre Vis} Administration supporters concede the accuracy of the statement of the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, to the Diet on January 21, that the United States "apparently entertains the idea that her own first line of defence lies... even as far as China and the South Seas."
The Administration's support of China began before the present Sino-Japanese conflict started in 1937 and was carried out with increasing vigour until today it has reached a state which includes many measures short of actual hostilities against Japan,
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