It may fol! on sceptical ears, but additional reason why Japan pre-now to pursue a peaceful path 4s in order to regain the good opi-union of the world, which was so lari sacrificed by the Manchurian campaign and the Shanghai Incident. When Mr, Yosuke Matsuoka as the nation's spokesman walked out of the League of Nations in Geneva with a chip on his shoulder, the idea prevailed in this country that it had no particular need of Europe and the Americas, that Japan could "go it lone" by concentrating on an East! Asia policy and making itself the unchallenged master-dielator of this quarter of the globe.
The few years which have inter-_ vened have. brought disillusionment! with them. The evidence of this fact Is so strong. as to be incontrovertible. Not only have Japanese horns been drawn in to a considerable degree as regards Soviet Russia and the policy toward China modified, but the Anti-Comintern Agreement with Berlin was motivated in part to gain a friend in the West, At the very moment of the most recent Sino-Japanese trouble Ambassador Shigeru Yoshida was Seeking in London to bring about a Fapprochement with the British Em-
With the cessation of the provocative notes of protest from the former American Secretary of Suite, Mr. Henry L, Stimson, American-Japanese relations have grown so steadily belter that they were almost back to the desirable state of 1923. Much of this hardly achieved progress toward improved" international relationships would of necessity be sacrificed in the event of a major armed clash with China, and this Japan fully: Fealizes and so would avoid if possible.
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