Last January the Japanese foreign minister. in a speech before the Diet. declared. "There exists no question between the two countries which is intrinsically difficult of amicable solution." Japan can have no territorial designs in this hemisphere. Why should she want to take California away from the retired Iowa farmers who own it. when there are lands several thousand miles nearer home that do not need irrigation? Why should the Japanese have designs on Hawaii or the Philippines. which are already. crowded. when the Asiatic mainland has millions of square miles of sparsely populated territory capable of yielding all the raw materials they will need for all time to come? If Japan needs land in Asia and proceeds to take it. how can we consistently object? We got our own Manchukuo from Mexico a little less than 100 years ago!