11 JANUARY 1919, Page 13

THE POLICING OF ASIA.

ITO THE EDITOR OP Tan " SPECTATOR "1

SIR,—Plta56 note that while some of the highest authorities of the British political world are advocating the consignment of Constantinople, Armenia, indeed almost all Turkey, to the care of the United States of America, the late Mr. Theodure Roosevelt on December 26th gave his fellow-countrymen DOOR " straightforward speaking" in these words: " We ought jud to undertake the tesk of policing Europe. Asia, and North Africa." Mr. Roosevelt's words indicate the path of duly to Europe as well as to America.—I am, Sir, Sc,,

A. C. Yuen Lient.-Col., Hon. Sec., Central Asian Social,.

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