Mr. X and the Pacific Quotes

“If we were to “save” China from Japan and become the “Number One” nation in the eyes of her people, we should thereby become not the most favored but the most distrusted of nations. It is no reproach to the Chinese to acknowledge that we should have established no claim upon their gratitude.…”
― Paul J. Heer, Mr. X and the Pacific: George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia