ABSTRACT
The Pacific Ocean is now our ocean. It never before was anybody's since the earth was formed. The Chinese of the great Central Kingdom never came down to the sea — they never built any ports, let alone ever set out across the stormy deeps. The British may have held a kind of sway as part of their Rule Britannia. The Japanese, with ferocious industry, pretty nearly held it commercially and made, as we recall, a bid to establish their imperial sun in all its skies, but they were doomed to fail because of the United States. Now the Pacific is America's.
