"Japan Reaches

Out"

A New Book Indicates What Is Likely to Happen in the Pacific

NEVER did a book come more oppor tunely than “Japan Reaches Out”, by Willard Price, an American writer, who has been for several years in the Orient, and knows Japan, Manchuko, China and all contiguous Eastern coun tries very intimately. It tells much of what students of Pacific affairs urgently want ed to know. • Mr. Price has studied the Japanese character with sympathy and under standing; he has discussed Japan’s do mestic and foreign problems at great length with the Japanese themselves, and with hundreds of people who can see what is happening in the Orient; he has taken what he calls a ”plane’s-eye view” of the whole situation in the north-west ern Pacific, in regard to both immediate problems and the distant future. He writes as an American, who has formed a warm regard for the Japanese, and whose friendship for British people and British countries is fundamental.

We tried to summarise, within a short article, some of the conclusions reached by Mr. Price, through the unescapeable logic of living facts. But such a sum mary is fair neither to Mr. Price nor our readers. The book is so admirably written, the facts are marshalled with such care, the argument is so conclusive, and the conclusions are so clear and startling, that there is only one thing to do —every man who is interested in the future of the Pacific must get this book and read it carefully for himself.

It is in no sense a product of the de corative American globe-trotter the kind of indescribable rubbish prepared by yellow American journalists for the titil lation of the radio-sated palates of Ame rica’s millions. It is a book of serious fact and cold logic—presented, however, in an attractive and entertaining man ner.

Here are a few provocative headings from various chapters:—“Japan—Trained to Die—lron Men from Paper Houses”; “Japanning China—China will Rise- Nobles of the Soil”; “Japan in the Paci fic —Mistress of the Yellow Seas —the Philippine Whirl-pool—Japan goes South to face Britain—America retires ungrace fully”; “Rising Sons on Par Horizons— Japan’s Divine Mission”

We never had less hesitation in recom mending a book to the notice of our readers. In fact, it is the duty of all well-informed people in the Pacific to read this volume. Our copy is from An gus & Robertson, Ltd., of Sydney, and it is priced at 10/6.