Note 429 — Chapter XVIII · THE FUTURE
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"It is, I think, an error to assume that elimination of the school and immigration questions will mean complete restoration of the former Japanese-American entente. This never can be restored in the shape which it previously assumed. Conditions never will revert to the situation which gave it vitality. It is perhaps not going too far to say that relations of America and Japan are only now becoming serious, in the sense that they directly include propositions about which modern nations will, upon due provocation, go to war.... The genesis of a collision between Japan and the United States of America, if it ever occurs, will be found in conditions on the mainland of Asia." (The Far Eastern Question, by T. F. Millard (T. Fisher Unwin, 1909), pp. 60-61.)