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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
The term “Southeast Asia” is coming steadily into greater use. The termis a convenient geographic expression, but is it anything more? Do the countries of this region have very much in common? Do they have enough in common to suggest the possibility of fruitful cooperation? These questions take on added significance because of the present political upheavals and unrest in nearly all of the countries of this region.
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2 Quoted by Felipe Mabilangan in the Philippine papers prepared for the Institute of Pacific Relations by the Philippine Council (1939), p. 30.
3 Chinese investments in this region are stated to be over 4 billion Straits Settlements dollars by the Overseas Board of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.
4 Felipe Mabilangan, op. cit., p. 31.
5 Richard Winstedt, “Malaya,” Annals of the American academy of political and social science (March 1943), 99.
6 P. D. Phillips in comment on the paper by W. D. Forsyth on “Stability i n the Pacific: the position o f Australia.” Institute of Pacific Relations Conference Paper, 1942, Australia and the Pacific.
7 The Philippines (New York: Macmillan, 1942), p. 453Google ScholarPubMed.
8 Ibid., pp. 803–804.
9 Supplement, August, 1942.
10 Article 73, United Nations Charter.
