【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 eventuality would at once threaten the freedom of the philippines and the loss of japan and might well force our western frontier back to the coast of california, oregon and washington.to understand the changes which now appear upon the chinese mainland, one must understand the changes in chinese character and culture over the past 50 years. china, up to 50 years ago, was pletely nonhomogenous, being partmented into groups spanided against each other. the warmaking tendency was almost nonexistent, as they still followed the tenets of the confucian ideal of pacifist culture. at the turn of the century, under the regime of chang tso lin, efforts toward greater homogeneity produced the start of a nationalist urge. this was further and more successfully developed under the leadership of chiang kaishek, but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on the character of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies.through these past 50 years the chinese people have thus bee militarized in their concepts and in their ideals. they now constitute excellent soldiers, with petent staffs and manders. this has produced a new and dominant power in asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with soviet russia but which in its own concepts and methods has bee aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power normal to this type of imperialism.there is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the chinese makeup. the standard of living is so low and the capital accumulation has been so thoroughly dissipated by war that the masses are desperate and eager to follow any leadership which seems to promise the alleviation of local stringencies.i have from the beginning believed that the chinese munists39。 support of the north koreans was the dominant one. their interests are, at present, parallel with those of the soviet. but i believe that the aggressiveness recently displayed not only in korea but also in indochina and tibet and pointing potentially toward the south reflects predominantly the same lust for the expansion of power which has animated every wouldbe conqueror since the beginning of time.the japanese people, since the war, have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern history. with a mendable will, eagerness to learn, and marked capacity to understand, they have, from the ashes left in war39。s wake, erected in japan an edifice dedicated to the supremacy of inspanidual liberty and personal dignity。 and in the ensuing process there has been created a truly representative government mitted to the advance of political morality, freedom of economic enterprise, and social justice.politically, economically, and socially japan is now abreast of many free nations of the earth and will not again fail the universal trust. that it may be counted upon to wield a profoundly beneficial influence over the course of events in asia is attested by the magnificent manner in which the japanese people have met the recent challenge of war, unrest, and confusion surrounding them from the outside and checked munism within their own frontiers without the slightest slackening in their forward progress. i sent all four of our occupation spanisions to the korean battlefront without the slightest qualms as to the effect of the resulting power vacuum upon japan. the results fully justified my faith. i know of no nation more serene, orderly, and industrious, nor in which higher hopes can be entertained for future constructive service in the advance of the human race.of our former ward, the philippines, we can look forward in confidence that the existing unrest will be corrected and a strong and healthy nation will grow in the longer aftermath of war39。s terrible destructiveness. we must be patient and understanding and never fail them as in our hour of need, they did not fail us. a christian nation, the philippines stand as a mighty bulwark of christianity in the far east, and its capacity for