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438 was hardly calculated to incur the good will of Japan. In 1941: Pearl Halibor. In 1954, by way of contrast, the American government advanced as one of the reasons for the extension of the Reciprocal Trade Program: "to improve Japan's trading prospects in the world, an essential element to stability in the whole Far Eastern situation."

Item: The nineteenth century was a century of free trade and relative peace. The twentieth century, so far, has been a century of protection and war.