Word: hawaian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...said by many people that sooner or later Japan will be tempted to seize the Philippines, then the Hawaian Islands, then the Pacific Coast ports. This claim is absurd, for Japan would gain absolutely no advantage from any such movement. In the first place Japan has no money to carry on such a war as would be inevitable if such seizures were made, and in the second place Japan in attacking the possessions of the United States would at the same time threaten the English, French, Russian, and Dutch positions in the East. In other words, if Japan attacks...