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reported to Churchill: “In the Far East the policy is to be ‘Japan for the
Japanese’.
Manchuria and Formosa would be returned to China and southern Sakhalin
to
Russia.”47

Roosevelt’s ideas about the British Empire in particular became clear in his
African trip. When
he visited Morocco to attend the Casablanca Conference he
spoke of witnessing colonial exploitation by
saying:

” [T] he colonial system means war. Exploit the resources of an India, a
Burma, a Java; take all
the wealth out of those countries, but never put anything
back into them, things like education, decent
standard of living, minimum health
requirements – all you’re doing is storing up the kind of trouble
that leads to
war.”48

Then
he went on talking about witnessing British imperialism’s
exploitation in the Gambia:

“…at about eight thirty in the morning, we drove through Bathurst to the airfield.
The natives
were just getting to work. In rags… glum looking… They told us the
natives would look happier around
noon-time, when the sun should have burned
off the dew and the chill. I was told the prevailing wages for
these men was one
and nine. One shilling, ninepence. Less than fifty cents….

A
day! Fifty cents a day. Besides which, they’re given a half-cup of rice….
Dirt. Disease. Very high
mortality rate. I asked. Life expectancy – you’d never
guess what it is. Twenty-six years. Those
people are treated worse than the live-
stock. Their cattle live longer.”49

Therefore, in place of imperialism Roosevelt introduced the idea of
trusteeship. He considered that
trusteeship would be a solution to the world’s
political problems. He wrote:

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