Japan, the manifesto emphasized, had been "perseveringly true to the spirit of the defunct Anglo-Japanese alliance," but her patience had become exhausted.
"The Japanese," it added, "cannot allow the British to continue their present improper actions unmolested," as they would serve to encourage Chinese persistence and resistance against Japan and Chinese co-opera tion with the Comintern, "thereby thwarting and delaying the establishment of peace in East Asia."
"As long as the British fail to reconsider their improper attitude," the manifesto declared, "we declare that Japan will be faced with the serious decision of considering the severance of 60 years of friendly relations."
The meeting was held in the palatial Japan Industrial Club, and was attended by 100 leading members of the Diet, industrialists, military leaders and educationalists, Mr. Teijiro Yamamoto, prominent member of the Seiyukai Party, presided, and he was supported by Mr. Shingo Tsuda, President of the Kanefaguchi Spinning Company; Mr. Gotaro Ogawa, formerly Minister of Commerce and Industry; Mr, Kwanichi Otake, well-known MP.; Mr. Ichiro Kiyose, prominent lawyer and formerly Vice-Speaker of the House of Representatives; and It-Gen. Y. Tatekawa, formerly Military Attache in China.—Reuter.
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