Britain, the United States and the Far East

Abstract

With the departure of President Wilson from Paris there came a change in the situation…. Irritation against America grew…. One heard it in the streets … that feeling of irritation against the United States, by reason of the fact that what we believed to be their undertakings in the cause of peace could not, owing to events in that country, be carried out. Close upon that came the American naval construction programme…. Men began to ask themselves against whom was the United States building. Was she building against us, or was she building against Japan? All the good results of … the Alliance … which had existed … during the War, seemed all at that moment to be on the wane.¹