"Accordingly in the conduct of out foreign relations this Government has directed its efforts tothe following objectives: (1) peace and security for the United States with assurance of peace and limitation and reduction armaments as universal Inter~ national objectives; (2) for law, oFder, justice and morality. and the ~-principle of freedom; (3) restoration. and "cultivation of sound economic agreements ud relations, based on equality of treatment; (4). devel ment in the promotion of these obj tives of the fullest practicable mes sure of International ce-operatic (5) promotion of the security, solly arity and general welfare of the western hemisphere, eservance and advocacy of the asia' principles underlying these policies and efforts toward their acceplaneo and application became increasingly important as three nations, tone afler another. made abundantly clear by word and by deed their determination: to repudiate and destroy the very foundations of a civilized world order under law and to enter upon the road. of armed conquest, of subjugation of other na~ tons and of tyrannical rule over their has been clear throughout that Japan has been actuated from the start by brosd and ambitious plans for establishing herself in a dominat~ Ing position in the entire region of the western Pacific. Her leaders have Jopenty declared their determination to achieve and maintain that position by force of arms and thus to make themselves masters of an area con-faining almost one-half of the entire population of the world. As a con-[Sequence they would have arbitrary feontrol of the sea and trade" routes jin that region, "New Order" Condemned "Previous experience and current developments indicate that the pro posed "new order" in the Pacific area ™means political domination by one Jeountry. "It means, economically, employment of the resources of the area concerned for the benefit of that jeountry and to the ultimate impoveushment of other patts of the area and exclusion of the interests of other countries, It means, socially, the destruction of personal liberties and the Feduetlon of the conquered people to the role of inferiors.
"It should be manifest to every person that such a programme for the subjugation and ruthless exploitation by one country of nearly one-halt of the population of the world is a matter of immense significance, importance and concern to every other Datlon wherever located, "Notwithstanding the course which Japan has followed during recent years, this Government has made ied efforts to persuade the ese Government, that her best Interests lie in the development felendly: relations "with the. United States. and with other countries, which believe in orderly and peaceful processes among nations. We have time made any threats.
In Europe the first open breach of world order was made by Italy, when in 1095 that country invaded and conquered Ethiopia in direct feontradiction of solemnly accepted obligations under the covenant of the Teague of Nalons and of the Kelloga-Briand Pact. In 1999 Italy seized Aibaria in violation of unequivocal treaty obligations, Tu the summer of 1940"she entered the European war fon the side of Germany with the openly avowed purpose of participate ting with that country in a remodel Ing of the world on the basis of a new order' founded upon unlimited ahd unrestricted use of armed force. Finally, without provocation, she attacked Greece.
The frst, step in this fatal dire ton occured in the Far East in 1931 with forceful occupation of Manchuria In contravention of the provisions the Nine power treaty and of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, The equilibrium the Far East which had been established by the Washington Cot ference treaties of 1021-1022. bee seriously disturbed by the sotting up forceful means in a part of China of a regime under Japanese control Under the name of 'Manchoukuo', This control over Manchuria haz been marked by the carrying out of a policy of discrimination. which has resulted in forcing out American and ether foreign interests,
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