6 THE PROBLEM OF THE PACIFIC

recently become prevalent that he who speaks of military power is a "militarist." This, how- ever, is as great a fallacy as the reverse assertion that he who talks of nothing but peace is a pacifist."

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Truth, even bitter truth, is better than the most high-minded fallacy.

The author has visited Japan, Siberia, China, the Philippines, the Malay States, and Hawaii in 1919 and 1920, and his personal impressions and investigations form the basis of the present book. The list of works which he has perused in the course of his investigation of the problem of the Pacific is hereto appended.

The author wishes to acknowledge his debt to Admiral A. D. Bubnov, who has contributed Chapters VII-X. Admiral Bubnov took part in the Russo-Japanese War, was Professor of the Naval Staff College at Petrograd, and Chief of the Naval Section of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief in the Great War. The Admiral is an authoritative student of the questions of naval strategy discussed in the chapters that belong to his pen.

The author also has to thank Mr. C. Nabokoff, the late Russian Chargé d'Affaires in London, for undertaking the translation of his book.