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"America is in a more exposed position in the Far East today than in Europe, and we must not let the war in Europe cause us to forget the crisis the United States faces in the Eastern Hemisphere," John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, said yesterday.
Saturday afternoon Fairbank and Thomas C. Pressly '40 in the Concluding Guardian broadcast for this semester, discussed "America's choice in the Far East." Fairbank, who is a recognized authority on the Far East, felt that a summary and comment on the broadcast would be appropriate.
"When our treaty with Japan expires on January 26, our relations will have an indefinite basis, and there will be no way of settling such matters as travel, residence, and commercial business." Fairbank explained.
U.S. Complaints Against Japan
The State Department abrogated the Japanese treaty last summer and, in Fairbank's view, it will be very difficult to draw up a new one because of the hundreds of unsettled complaints of American citizens against Japan.
"The situation is even more complicated." he declared, "by the extreme disagreement between Japan's foreign policy and ours. They talk of a new order in East Asia, an order dominated by Japan and subordinating all the great western powers."
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