Japan, the manifesto emphasized, had been "perseveringly true to the sprit 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," fas 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 re-[consider their improper attitude," the manifesto declared, "we declare that Tapan will be faced with the serious decision of considering the severance 60 years of friendly relations:
The meeting was held in the pal {tial Japan Industrial Club, and was attended by 100 leading members of the Diet, industrialists, military Teaders and educationalists, Mr. Teljiro Yamamoto, prominent member of the Selyukat'Party, presided, and he was supported by Mr. Shingo Tsuda, President of the Kanefogueht Spinning Company; Mr. (Gotaro Ogawa, formerly Minister of Commerce and Industry; Mr. Kwanlchi Otake, well-known MP; Mr. chiro Klyose, prominent lawyer and formerly Vice-Speaker of the House of Representatives; and Lt. Gen. Y. Tatekaws, formerly Military Attache China—Reuter,
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