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Last week with only the shadow of Germany protecting the colonies of defeated France, this storm of Chinese wrath was turned on the whole Western world. For three years, Chinese reasoned, one of the important aims of their fight had been to keep the Orient open to the white man. At any moment China might have had peace by abandoning him and joining the Japanese New Order in Asia. Yet China fought on. In return the Western democracies had helped China considerably, but first through witlessness and later through helplessness had done considerably more to smooth the path of Japan...
Proud is Seattle of her position as "U. S. gateway to Alaska and the Orient." And proud is Seattle of great, 20-mile-long Lake Washington, which Seattle considers hers although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...
...December 1938, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, then Premier of Japan, made a famous speech in which he proclaimed that Japan's aim was the creation of a New Order in East Asia. Ostensibly this meant that the Orient should be for Orientals, working in cooperation with each other; actually, it developed, it was to mean an Orient for the enjoyment of Japan. Recently, after a year and a half's retirement, Prince Konoye returned to power at the head of a quasi-fascist Government. Like a poor but ambitious woman who cocks a new feather...
...generations the defense of the U. S. has faced west. Into the naval bases at Cavite, P. I. and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have gone 75-80 millions of dollars for defense against an invader from the Orient. But today, although the U. S. Army and Navy are beginning to develop Alaska air and sea bases as another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until...
...Hocking believes that "we shall see in the Orient the rise of a Christianity far outpassing that which we of the West have conceived, simply because it can recover there so many lost fragments of what is its own." The fusion of spiritual beliefs which he envisages for the world faith of the future will be God-centred rather than Christ-centred: "God is in His world, but Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed are in their little private closets, and we shall thank them, but never return to them...