'The Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi" _comments upon "The Great Pacific War" by Mr. Hector C. Bywater' in an editorial, and talks as though the book were inspired by the British Government as part of its Far Eastern policy. The "Nichi-Nichi" says the new book is apparently designed to create a gulf between Japan and America. Britain does. not Ike to see Japan and America live in accord, if not in close friend. ship, in the Far East, hence Mr. Bywater's book has a very close relationship with the Far Eastern policy of the British Government.
Arguing this, the "Nichi-Nichi" says: "That Britain is obliged to work for the estrangement of feeling. between Japan and America is the natural result of the abrogation of the AngloJapanese Alliance! ington Conference on lative. The original intention of the British Gover ment was to purchase America's good will at the price of the Alliaxce. but it virtually fell between two Stools. As can be easily understood, Britain thinks it to her interest that no ties of close friendship should be forged _betweer Japan and Ames otherwise 'ashe cannot hope to wi either of} these countries over to her side. Pending the attainment of her. final object, she is obliged to pursue a double-faced policy. While pretending to keep on the best terms with America, on the one hand, she is secretly striving to retain friendship with Japan, on the other. The extraordinary assertion wade in Ragland that AngloJapansee: friendship is morally stronger now
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