The Problem of the Pacific in the Twentieth Century. By
General N. Golovin. Translated by C. Nabokoff. (Gyldendal. 10s. 6d. net.)—General Golovin, envisaging the Far East from a military standpoint, maintains that Japan is too strong and too remote to be attacked with success by the American Navy in the war which, he assumes, will be caused by Japan's determination to dominate China. His technical arguments are clear and plausible. He under-estimates the difficulty of dealing with a dense popu- lation of 400,000,000 Chinese, and he disregards financial as well as moral considerations, to say nothing of the treaties made at Washington. The real object of the book is perhaps disclosed in the suggestion that " the United States can defeat Japan only in alliance with a strong Russia." It is wholly improbable that in our time Russia will recover sufficiently to be able to contemplate a war with Japan or any other great Power. Nor will America be induced to assist Russia by such military arguments as these.
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