【正文】 eld by us and our free this island chain we can dominate with sea and air power every Asiatic port from Vladivostok to Singaporewith sea and air power every port, as I said, from Vladivostok to Singaporeand prevent any hostile movement into the predatory attack from Asia must be an amphibious effort.* No amphibious force can be successful without control of the sea lanes and the air over those lanes in its avenue of naval and air supremacy and modest ground elements to defend bases, any major attack from continental Asia toward us or our friends in the pacific would be doomed to such conditions, the pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and envisions no attack against anyone, nor does it provide the bastions essential for offensive operations, but properly maintained, would be an invincible defense against holding of this literal defense line in the western pacific is entirely dependent upon holding all segments thereof。for any major breach of that line by an unfriendly power would render vulnerable to determined attack every other major is a military estimate as to which I have yet to find a military leader who will take that reason, I have strongly remended in the past, as a matter of military urgency, that under no circumstances must Formosa fall under Communist an 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 understand the changes which now appear upon the Chinese mainland, one must understand the changes in Chinese character and culture over the past 50 , up to 50 years ago, was pletely nonhomogenous, being partmented into groups divided against each warmaking tendency was almost nonexistent, as they still followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist the turn of the century, under the regime of Chang Tso Lin, efforts toward greater homogeneity produced the start of a nationalist 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 these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus bee militarized in their concepts and in their now constitute excellent soldiers, with petent staffs and 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 is little of the ideological concept either one way or another in the Chinese 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 have from the beginning believed that the Chinese Communists39。 support of the North Koreans was the dominant interests are, at present, parallel with those of the 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 Japanese people, since the war, have undergone the greatest reformation recorded in modern 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 individual 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 , economically, and socially Japan is now abreast of many free nations of the earth and will not again fail the universal 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 sent all four of our occupation divisions to the Korean battlefront without the slightest qualms as to the effect of the resulting power vacuum upon results fully justified my 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 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 must be patient and understanding and never fail themas in our hour of need, they did not fail Christian nation, the philippines stand as a mighty bulwark of Christianity in the Far East, and its capacity for high moral leadership in Asia is Formosa, the government of the Republic of China has had the opportunity to refute by action much of the malicious gossip which so undermined the strength of its leadership on the Chinese Formosan people are receiving a just and enlightened administration with majority representation on the organs of government, and politically, economically, and socially they appear to be advancing along sound and constructive this brief insight into the surrounding areas, I now turn to the Korean I was not consulted prior to the president39。s decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and