Our Concern for the Integrity of China

Generally speaking, Americans have had little difficulty in understanding the origins and the persistence of the first two of these regional and historic policies. They have found a ready and natural explanation for isolation-no entangling alliances; and for the Monroe Doctrine in the aspirations of a young and democratic republic to survive in a world where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were not accepted by the autocrats of either Europe or Asia as the political birthright of a people. It has long been evident why early Americans believed, and bequeathed the belief to their children, that their experiment in political democracy would fail if they dissipated the national energies in the broils of Europe or permitted the forcible transplanting by European powers of their political system (autocracy) on American shores. In contrast with this, the policy or set of policies toward the Far East has never interpreted itself to the American people with the same simplicity, clarity, or logic. Historically speaking, Americans have never felt that their own na

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