I NEW LEADER WORLD EVENTS SECTION A Monthly Supplement The Changing FAR EAST By William Henry Chamberlin World Events No. 3. The New Leader, 7 East 15th St, New York 3, N....
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THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ORIENT POLITICALLY and strategically, socially and economically, the Far East is one of the most important regions in the world today. Some of the former relations between...
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ECONOMIC RESULTS OF DEFEAT OVERSHADOWING all such minor issues as the retention or abolition of the Imperial dynasty, the fate of the Shinto religion, the details of industrial and agrarian...
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OCCUPATION POLICIES THE constructive record of foreign military occupation is far better in Japan than it is in Germany. I! is in j?i'iiy 1>v'i ause sin^e-neaded authority and responsibility were...
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2—PIVOTAL CHINA The fall of Japan has left a vacuum in Far Eastern politics. China is the logical candidate to fill this vacuum. It is the seat of one of the world's oldest civilizations. With...
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SURFACE UNIFICATION But the unification of China was still largely a surface achievement. There had been a deep split in the revolutionary movement in 1927. Those forces in the Kuomintang which...
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THE POSTWAR SITUATION ThE political situation in China would have been simpler if the armies of the Nationalist Government had been built up, with American instruction and technical aid, to a...
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AMERICAN POLICY IN CHINA ThE American Government and American publi< opinion followed with considerable concern the grow ing civil strife in China. There were sharp and sometimes explosive...
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4—CHINA: COCKPIT OF FOREIGN INFLUENCES SoME nations become a threat to world peace and security because they make an unscrupulous use of superior strength. Others more innocently and...
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SOVIET POLICY So VIET foreign policy, in China as elsewhere, combines pursuit of historic Russian ambitions with new totalitarian revolutionary methods. The Soviet Government inherits a fact...
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CHINA'S FUTURE LiKE all countries which have been invaded and ravaged during the war, China faces a vast task of reconstruction. Even before the war the majority of the Chinese people lived in a...
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POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS The crisis of imperialism could conceivably lead to one of three results. The insurgent Indonesians and Indo-Chinese could drive the alien foreigners into the sea and set up...
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