Abstract

What of Asia?

The article discusses books and authors. The continuing European bias in American thinking on foreign affairs, is a remarkable thing. It is nowhere better evidenced than in the fact that out of the scores of books already issued by the prophets and planners of the post-war world only about half a dozen take any note at all of Asia and the Pacific and only two concentrate solely on that area. While this one-eyed outlook persists, we must accordingly be grateful for such an effort as author Hallett Abend's "Pacific Charter: Our Destiny in Asia," to depict in simplified out- line for the non-expert reader some of the vast issues that will confront post-war Asia, even though the picture is still left very blurred with some of the details inexact.