If it were not that Japan has frequently in the past accomplished what seemed impossible it would be easy to predict that this -present plan would fail; given the known facts of the past no such judgment is rational at present. Just how it is to be done cannot be clearly for-seen, but one of the major principles in the new programme is to consider Japan and Manchoukuo as an absolute economic, unit. They have been a military unit for about five rs, and to some extent a political unit; they are now, if the Japanese can accomplish it; to become an economic unit.
Every plan being made in Tokyo to-day considers not only the resources of Japan and its colonies but of Manchoukuo as well How can that be reconciled with the [principle of the Operf^Door? The question will have to be left to the gentlemen of Kasumigaseki to answer, as undoubtedly the War Office is leaving it.
In the realm of foreign policy Japan may. be expected to pursue [a far more conciliatory and friend! course than has always been the case. Japan wants above all things to be left alone while she works out [and brings to perfection her own five-year plan. Unless there be some stupid blunder on the part of a handful of too ardent patriots, no nation need fear Japan as "an aggressor until or unless. the situation is altered.
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