Orient

Question 1

Russo-Japanese war of 1904

Answer 1

Japan replaced Russia as dominant power in south Manchuria and Korea.

Question 2

Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have come before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness;

Answer 2

And at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes the future, from which it derives sort of cosmic unforgivable.

Question 3

Our action in the field of foreign-policy is cumulative;

Answer 3

It merges with a swelling stream of other human happenings; and we cannot trace its effects with any exactness once it has entered the fluid substance of history.

Question 4

Instead of making ourselves slaves to the concept of international law and morality,

Answer 4

We should confine ourselves to an almost feminine function of the gentle civilizer of national self interest; Morality and international law would come in consequence.

Question 5

Why was Manchuria of strategic importance for Russia

Answer 5

A railroad across the Siberia to the Pacific Ocean.