...Peter W. Stanley Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 Theodore Roosevelt and the Philippines, 1897–1909 . By Oscar M. Alfonso . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1970 . xiv, 227 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p. 740 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Chitoshi Yanaga Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Theodore Roosevelt and Japan . By Raymond A. Esthus . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1967 . 329 pp. Index, Bibliography. $7.95. 148 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES have been even more rapid...

...Eugene P. Trani Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 An Uncertain Friendship, Theodore Roosevelt and Japan, 1906–1909 . By Charles Neu . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1967 . 320 pp. Index, Notes, Bibliography. $6.95. BOOK REVIEWS 643...

...Wesley R. Fishel The Roosevelt-MacArthur Conflict . By James K. Eyre, Jr. , Chambersburg, Pennsylvania : The Craft Press, Inc. , 1950 . 234 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1952 1952 BOOK REVIEWS 257 cratic currents, and both unconscious and conscious...

...Michael Schaller China Scapegoat: The Diplomatic Ordeal of John Carter Vincent . By Gary May . Washington, D.C. : New Republic Books , 1979 . 370 pp. Bibliography, Notes, Index. $15.95. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 . By Robert Dallek . New York...

...Diane Shaver Clemens Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II . By Waldo Heinrichs . New York : Oxford University Press , 1988 . xiv, 279 pp. $21.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS ASIA GENERAL 337...

...). After three years of persistent effort, the Chinese Minister to the United States committed the reluctant Roosevelt administration to return of the surplus. But W. W. Rockhill, the Minister in Peking, feared the Chinese would squander the money and campaigned to have the funds devoted exclusively...

... Ibid. 28 Ibid., p. 5. 27 Nihon , p. 4. 26 For S. M. Roosevelt's biographical information, see The National Cyclopedia of American Biography ( New York , 1904 ), XII , 128 ; and his obituary in The New York Times , August 20, 1920 . 25 Kentarō Kaneko...

... more than list the sources at the end of the book; a bibliographical note or an annotated bibliography would be much more valuable. The papers of Horace Porter, for example, contributed little to the study, but in the present listing receive the same mention as those of President Roosevelt. From...

..., Loomis to Moncheur, July 21, 1904. 100 Ibid., 866. 99 MacMurray , Treaties , 1: 528 –31. 98 Ibid., Roosevelt to Leopold, Aug. 31, 1905, telegram. 97 MSS. The Roosevelt papers, Roosevelt to Rockhill, Aug. 29, 1905. 96 Notes to the Chinese legation, 2...

...-Katsura Agreement" of July, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt endorsed Japan's control of Korea in return for Japan's promise not to attack the Philippines (p. 477). This interpretation is no longer tenable. It is true that President Roosevelt thought that Japan was entitled to rule Korea as a fruit...

... of large firms. These and other important questions pertaining to industrial dualism in Japan remain largely unanswered. ROBERT S. OZAKI California State College at Hayward Theodore Roosevelt and Japan. B Y RAYMOND A. ESTHUS. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967. 329 pp. Index, Bibliography. $7.95...

... the main lines of his story. In all, therefore, it is an enlightening study, told with accuracy and economy. The human interest of the Portsmouth conference lies in the contrasting characters of the three main "participants" Komura Jutaro, Sergei Witte, and Theodore Roosevelt. The first two were acting...

... in the hands of a pivotal figure, the book has certain shortcomings. The most important is that contrary to Alfonso's working assumption, Roosevelt appears not to have been the key figure in making the Philippine policy of his own administration. He had ultimate authority, of course. But lengthy and important...

... Minister of Singapore; that there were one or more individuals in the Barisan who were "committed to its destruction." The bibliography is too wideranging without being completely up-to-date. R. S. MILNE University of British Columbia Theodore Roosevelt and the Philippines, 18971909. BY OSCAR M. ALFONSO...

.... In doing so, she traces the increasingly hostile American discourse on Korea during the 1890s and 1900s. Although the precise mixture of attitudes toward Japan and Korea vary from one individual to another, Americans such as Theodore Roosevelt, George Kennan, William W. Rockhill, Edwin V. Morgan...

... effect with Americans, Quezon would occasionally threaten to rebel. In this case the rhetoric was the prelude to a trip to Washington. Hoping to extract a fairer independence act from the new administration of Franklin Roosevelt, and thus put himself one-up on Osmena and Roxas, Quezon gathered about him...

... withdrew governmental support from the financial policies of American bankers in the Far East. And he withdrew it not alone because he was a Democrat frowning upon the imperialism of the preceding Republican administrations of McKinley, Roosevelt I, and Taft. He did it, as the author indicates...

... by the popular nature of the book. One of the most interesting chapters deals with the Russo-Japanese war, for this one period in which Russian and American interests threatened to clash was the era of Teddy Roosevelt's call to America's "Manifest Destiny" and of Russia's march to an ice-free port in the East...

..., Bibliography, Index. $17.50 To take up the author's second question: Why was the policy continued? Bureaucratic momentum offers a partial answer. But surely so force- The purpose of this book is to expose what ful a president as Theodore Roosevelt could author McKee calls the "second policy" of the have bent...