Japanese "Three-Year New Asia Plan" Causes Increasing Concern London, Jan. 4.
Indicative of the anxiety caused in Britain by an alleged Japanese intention to carry out a "Three-Year Plan" in connection with the creation of a "New Order" in the Far East, are the notes of alarm. sounded of late in City quarters where. a group of very active bankers and exporters has apparently resolved to exert pressure on the Prime Min ster, Mr.
Neville Chamberlain. in the China question, before it is too late In a letter to "The Times" published this morning, Mr. Lennox B. Lee, prominent English businessman und chairman of the Calico Printer Mr, Sethin. Ikeda Finance miral Nobumasa Suetsugu Home Affair Count Yoriyasu Arima icultur Mr. Ryutaro Nagai.... Commun/cations Mr. Chikuhei Nakajima Railways The "Asahi" thinks it vneertain whether General Baron: Sadao Araki, Association of Lancashire, says thi England cannot afford to allow hi best potential markets to become it Japanese preserve. Whereas in the past Japan had in theory at least, as in the case of Manchoukuo, lowed the policy of the "Open Door" and the Nine-Power Treaty to remain in operation, nothing of the kind is contemplated in pursuing
capital investments in China amount its idea of a "New Asia" British to £300,000,000 (and exceeds those of all other countries taken together, inclusive of Japan. Wheras in the past Britain could claim twelve per ce e of the Chinese import trade, this had fallen in the first ten months of 1988 to eight per cent.
Past Experience Cited Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma,
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