However. we must realize that some 350.000.000 people live there. Those people are human beingsthey eat. live. breathe. and have the same emotions that we have. Potentially. they can be our friends or our enemies. We have the historythe recent historyof the Burmese. Thailanders. and other Asiatic peoples turning against us. not because we did not understand them so much as because they understood us better. Imperialistic policies are things of the past and will no longer work because peoples. all over. have seen the evils which develop in connection with them. A spirit of nationalism is sweeping the Far East and we cannotand must notignore it.