American Far Eastern Policy, 1931-1937

fHE concern of Americans with the Far Eastern war rests on commercial, cultural and political interests, the damaging of which not only does direct injury to their commerce and beliefs but also breaks down an entire structure of international living which they have helped to establish in the long course of modern history, and particularly since i9i9. The concern was similar at the time of the Manchurian and Shanghai invasions of i93I-32. But today there is this difference: that the situation is infinitely more grave and the American involvement in it more critical. In his book, The Far Eastern Crisis, Mr. Stimson, reviewing his administration of policy during the earlier crisis when he was Secretary of State, has described the possible harm to American interests which he believed to be inherent in that situation. This analysis is even more cogent to the present conflict

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