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attendance at the 41 provincial schools in Mukden was recently re-
ported in the press as 20,231-the city's population is approximately
400,000. That the Japanese have not overlooked the important part
played by schools in moulding public opinion is indicated by the
promptness with which text books were revised and by the sending of
selected youths from time to time to Japan-about 300 Manchurians
are reported to be studying in Japan-for further training. Accord-
ing to a recent "Manchoukuo News Service" report a new educational
program will be inaugurated at the time of the establishment of the
monarchy which "will lay emphasis on the exaltation and propa-
gation of the spirit of national founding among the younger genera-
tion." My informant expressed the view that the reactions of this
body of Chinese are of some potential importance especially as they
have close connections in China.
  Respectfully yours,                                M. S. MYERS

790.94/59
    The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

No. 668                                 TOKYO, February 8, 1934.
                                          [Received February 24.]
  SIR: In despatch No. 284 of February 9, 1933,36 I had the honor
to report the holding of a "preliminary conference for the establish-
ment of a League of Asiatic Peoples" in Tokyo on January 26 of
last year. This report was supplemented by two reports, No. 311
of March 7 and No. 468 of July 13, 1933.37 The former dealt with
the inauguration, on March 1, last, of the "Great Asia Association"
and the latter with the reported organization of a Great Asia Federa-
tion at Canton.
  I have now the honor to enclose, in a translation supplied by a
colleagues, a prospectus of the "Pan Asiatic League".36 This docu-
ment makes much of the supposed exploitation of Asiatic peoples by
the Western nations, and pictures Japan in the role of a defender
of Asia against White domination. It defends the establishment of
"Manchukuo" on the grounds that its separation from China was
not an indication of disintegration, but the rescue of Manchuria from
the domination of Western nations who have hitherto controlled
China. The paper dwells at some length on the mutuality of interest
of the peoples of Asia and their need to defend themselves against
the imperialistic West, including Soviet Russia. The peoples in dan-

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