Abstract

The Menace of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance is a menace to the U.S. It is a menace not because it is deliberately aimed at the U.S. It is a menace in a less obvious but equally sinister sense because it is the greatest single impetus to the forces that make for war in the Pacific. The purpose of the Alliance is declared in the treaty to be the maintenance of the integrity of China and the preservation of the peace of the Far East. It has operated exactly to the contrary. Greater inroads have been made on China's sovereignty and more disturbances produced in the Far East in the lifetime of that treaty than ever before, more even than in the period of the Battle of the Concessions at the end of last century. The inroads have been made principally by Japan.