Solution on Asia Author:Owen Lattimore Copyright 1944, 1945. Published 1945. — Mr. Lattimore has at last taken the lid off his vast and exclusive knowledge of Asia. What he says will have a direct effect on the war and the peace since it will be read in Foreign Offices throughout the world. — In this book he points out the road American policy must take to achieve a victory for democra... more »cy in Asia. He discusses China, Japan, and all the other Eastern areas from their real basis, the people in them. He shows how the "experts" have covered their ignorance with such dogmas and cliches as as the myth that the Chinese are enigmatic, that the Japanese Emperor is an ancient Japanese deity, that the Chinese are incapable of democratic government. He says bluntly that Japan's exploitation of China was aided and abetted by the United States and Britain on condition that they receive their share of the loot. He shows that all the Asiatic peoples are more interested in actual democratic processes, such as the ones they can see in action across the Russian border, than they are in the fine theories of Anglo-Saxon democracies that come coupled with ruthless imperialism. He warns us that if we help the European powers revive sahib powers in the colonies, we shall be classed as imperialists no matter what we do in the Philippines. He inclines to support American newspapermen who report that the only real democracy in China is found in Communist areas. Finally, he shows what U.S. policy should be in Asia and why the solution is political and economic rather than military.« less