...P.H.C. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States 1931 . Volume III , The Far East . Washington : Government Printing Office , 1946 . cviii, 1091 p. $2.75. Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers 1932 . Volumes III and IV, The Far East...

...William R. Braisted Coral Sea, Midway and submarine actions, May 1942–August 1942 . Vol. IV of History of United States naval operations in World War II . By Samuel Eliot Morison . Boston : Little, Brown & Company , 1949 . xxiii, 307 p. $6.00. United States Army in World War...

...B. A. Liu War and peace aims of the United Nations . Edited by Louise W. Holborn . Boston : World Peace Foundation , 1943 . 730 pages. $2.50. War and peace aims: Extracts from statements of United Nations leaders . New York : United Nations Information Office , 1943 . 136...

...David G. Marr Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam . By Jessica M. Chapman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xi, 276 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam...

...Mesrob Vartavarian According to Pyle, such an invasive seizure of Japan was unnecessary as US officials soon made numerous compromises with established elites and interests. This argument is problematic in certain respects. Pyle himself admits that it would have been much harder for the United...

...Sidney DeVere Brown Japanese Studies in the United States . Part I, History and Present Condition . Part II, Directory of Japan Specialists and Japanese Studies Institutions in the United States and Canada , vol. 1, Japan Specialists; vol. 2, Institutions and Indexes . Japanese Studies...

... has turned out much as he planned: a well-done, at times painstaking effort to categorize what the Western literature thinks it knows about the Korean War, circa 1991. BRUCE CUMINGS University of Chicago G-2 Periodic Report. United States Armed Forces in Korea (USAFIK) Headquarters. 8 volumes...

... the salutary effects of a multiplier effect from railroad investment would serve to stimulate other branches of the economy. As to why industrial efforts were weak, The Eternal Triangle? Communist China, the United States and the United Nations. By SHELDON APPLETON. East Lansing: Michigan State University...

...Clark D. Neher United States–Thailand Relations . Edited by Karl D. Jackson and Wi-wat Mungkandi . Research Papers and Policy Studies 20. Berkeley : University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies , 1986 . 332 pp. $20.00 (paper). The United States and Thailand...

...Ellen van Zyll de Jong The Netherlands Indies and the United States . By Rupert Emerson . Boston : World Peace Foundation , 1942 . 92 p. Cloth 50 ¢. Paper 25 ¢. Asia's captive colonies . By Philip E. Lilienthal and John H. Oakie . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations...

...Eldon Griffin United States shipping in transpacific trade, 1922–1938 . By Walter A. Radius . Stanford University : Stanford University Press , 1944 . xvi, 204 p. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946 1946 BOOK REVIEWS 233 Mrs. Buck's "Conclusion: East...

..., had increased interest in China and Japan in American schools and among Americans at large, but even so the development of Far Eastern studies in the United States had been unimpressive. In general, the higher one rose in the school system of the United States the better chance one had of learning...

...Delmer M. Brown Yankee surveyors in the shogun's seas: records of the United States surveying expedition to the North Pacific Ocean ., 1853 – 1856 . Edited by Allan B. Cole . Princeton University Press , 1947 . 161 p. $2.50. A scientist with Perry in Japan: the journal of Dr...

... military and naval power rested, in order that China might create an army and navy as a protection against the aggressive tendencies of the Occidental nations. CHINESE EDUCATIONAL COMMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES A Government Experiment in Western Education THOMAS E. LAFARGUE State College of Washington...

...Herbert J. Wood United States policy toward China . By Paul Hibbert Clyde . Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press , 1940 . xvi, 321 p. $3.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 192 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY texts, the authors plunge into the actual...

...Walter R. Fee The United States and Japan's new order . By William C. Johnstone . Revised and enlarged edition. London and New York : Oxford University Press . 1941 . xii, 392 p. $3.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 194 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...

...James H. Shoemaker BOOK REVIEWS 409 virtually abandoned in 1939 when the British government sharply protested against Japan's New Order. With the United States the British government wished to cooperate, pro- vided the cooperation did not unduly strain their relations with Japan and thus prevent...

...Mary C. Wright United States relations with China with special reference to the period 1944–1949 . Department of State publication no. 3573 . Washington , 1949 . xli, 1054 p. $3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950 1950 1 Hsin-hua she-she-lun, Wu...

...John B. Oliver Korean-American Relations: Documents Pertaining to the Far Eastern Diplomacy of the United States . Volume I : The Initial Period, 1883–1886 . Edited, with an Introduction, by George M. McCune and John A. Harrison . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California...

..., and by England in the Yangtze Valley. That Americans claimed no political accommodations in return for monetary advances was an inducement to the Chinese to seek money in the United States. Furthermore, in the railway field, Americans had gained valuable experience through the construction of their own great...