These are not remote and speculative contingencies. Hawaii was quite literally scared into seeking annexation:to the United States by Spanish pressure in. 1898. .Since then. international pressures have grown far more ominous. Once new "standards of degree" were established. many an Asiatic nation might offer a consistent plea: If it were sound to take in Hawaii. 2.500 miles away. then why not Guam. some 5.000 miles away? If it is sound public policy to admit Hawaii. with a Japanese population of 37 percent. then why not .Japan itself. with a Japanese population of 100 percent? There may be those* who look upon such 6ontingencies unconcerned.