The Archive · 1938

Comment on Tokyo Report

Commenting on the Tokyo Gai-musha statement that Japan will join forces with Italy and Germany in an eventual conflict, in accordance with the anti-Comintern pact, official circles here stated that Japan merely wished to draw attention to herself, The American Navy, in any case, is.ready for any eventuality and can speedily reach Hawaii in the event a conflict.

Official circles are becoming more and more tight-lipped, this attitude being attributed to the fears that pressure may be exerted upon Prague to sacrifice its national unity, which would react on American opinion in the same way as the anschluss or the Ethiopian conquest, and to the results of the primary elections of

[ed the isolationists the Democratic Party which favour-of the President's partisans, cui the victory of Senator Such as isolationist, in

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