General Cherfils' view is that to enlist the services of Japanese army in Europe would be both impolitic and unnecessary, because, in all probability, Rumania, and perhaps Italy as well, will be attacking Austria long before the Japanese troops could appear on the scene.
No one mentions the very obvious jection that bargaining for the of Japanese troops is very much like hiring mercenaries to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. I do not believe that M. Delcassé is at all in favour of the idea, because he knows that all sorts of very delicate questions would arise, not only during the veried of collaboration between Tananese and European troops but after the close of hostilities. Japan would be asked to join in a struggle
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