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or Honolulu, both to a flank, or be destroyed, whereas, the Japanese would have their whole base to retire to in case of necessity. The distance from Guam to Yokohama is about 1800 miles or about 600 miles less than the distance from Manila to Yokohama, furthermore it is connected by a fringe of islands whose greatest distance apart is 400 miles. From a strategic standpoint, Guam is of the greatest importance.

Sixteen hundred miles west of Guam, we reach the Philippines, our own possession, very rich, not only agriculturally and otherwise, but also the very best point from which from which to push trade into the continent of Asia with its 800,000,000 people. A 2000 mile radius from Manila will cut or enclose the great marts of eastern Asia. This is the actual value of the Philippines, and is not only a tremendous advantage to the United States but also to all white people, because if the Philippines become a possession of Japan the position of Great Britain in the east would be greatly threatened if not finished, and, as Great Britain is the only other white power capable of asserting itself physically in the Far East it is to their interest that the United States remain in