ABSTRACT
The news from Europe was perhaps doubly shattering to the British in Japan who, separated from their own land by ten thousand miles, had to witness at close quarters the steady disintegration of all that was decent and fair-minded in Japanese political life. The forces of greed, rapacity and aggression were carrying all before them. Time pressed if they were to snatch for themselves in the South Pacific the spoils which might otherwise fall to a victorious Germany. Now, cried the expansionists, was the great moment in Japanese history. How were they to face their ancestors should this supreme opportunity be missed?
