After the opendoor policy had been reaffirmed and reexpressed by the RootTakahira agreement. and during the last war. while Great Britain and France W\.ere entering into secret engageients with Japan for it disposit ion of the islands in the Pacific Ocean to be conquered from lhe German Emnpire. the United States entered into an engagemient in what is known as the LansingIshii agreement. If you will read it you will find that. while the LansitgIshii agreement expressly reaffirmed the princil)les of the opendoor policy. it contained an additional stipulation. It recognized. on account of geographical proximity. that Japan had special interests in China: and during the course of the negotiations. as disclosed by Secretary Lansing before the Cotttittee on Foreign Relations. it Was made clear that Japan insisted that " special interests " should be interljreted "paramount interests." Japan has always. at least during the last quarter of a century. taken the view that she occupies toward the Asiatic raitinland something of the relation that the United States bears toward the Western Hemisphere. Japan has contended for an oriental Monroe doctrine in which the Japanese Eitpire should be the controlling and dominating factor. Japans viewpoint is. and her practice has been. that she should have. artd must lhave. from ecitnonlic necessity. paramount interests in China and in Russia. lVith that in mind. and with the history of hler aggressions summarized. does any Senator believe that Japan. as a result of the fourpower treaty. is going to reverse her traditional policy in the Orient. withdraw frot the various territories which she holds and which she seized because she foun it necessary to do so. and adolt a policy entirely different froimn that which she has pursued since she became a wideawake nation alniong the peoples of tie world?