This is tie treaty. Let us analyze it and try to ascertain its true meaning. This can best be done by first stating the principal reasons which led to its adoption. as follows: (a) There has been a great deal of friction for many years aniong all the leading powers in regard to China. especially since Japan took possession of Shantung in 1915. and has treated it practically as a conquered province. (b) The failure of .[ap.n to withdraw her military forces front Siberia after the United States Army retired from that country in the spring of 1.920 hls added fuel to the flames. (c) China and Russia have been strong friends of the United States for the last century. atid whatever affects either or both of them adversely arouses deep interest in America. (d) Oil tie Pacific coast of the United States a number of domestic problems connected with Japanese immigration and land ownership have caused much crilnination and recrimination. (e) The United States has vast responsibilities in the Far East through its ownership of the lhilippines. which are 7.000 iiles away froti the mainland of America. (f) There has been in existence for 20 years a treaty of alliance and defense between tile British Enipire and Japan which binds Great Britain to conduct war in common with Japan in order to defend its territorial rights or special itsterests. (g) Japan is in close proximity to the Philippines. there is a very large Japanese population in the Hawaiian Islands. Japan has exhibited i remarkably militaristic spirit in her recent wars with China and Russia. her forcible absorption of Korea. and her continued hold on Shantung and Siberia. (h) The three leading naval powers have been engasgedi ii a race of giant battleship construction. tile United States setting the pace. Japan following as fast its sue could. and Great Britain. mistress of the sea for more than a century. panting in her eftort to keep ip a navy equal to ours.
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