Tokyo, Sept. 28.
"As pointed out by President Roosevelt, Japan too could not escape the consequences of a rupture of the peace fabric, but it cannot be told to what extent Japan would suffer," a Foreign Office spokesman told foreign correspondents today.
Asked if Japan would be involved lin a possible European war, the spokesman said he could not tell because Japan's attitude depended on future developments in the situation.
"I have nothing to add to my statement of September 14," the spokesman said in reply to questions regarding Reichsfuehrer Hitler's speech, In his statement of September 14, issued following Chancellor Hitler's speech in Nuremberg, the spokesman sai "Responsibility for the present complication of the Sudeten question rests largely on the machinations of the Comintern which is pulling strings behind the Czechoslovakian Government. In its desperate attempt to bolshevize Europe the Comintern has been doing everything to prevent a peaceful settlement of the racial problem in Czechoslovakia. We Japanese have had plenty of experience with the subterranean activities of the Comintern in the present China affair.
"Since the position of Czechoslovakia. as a base for Comintern machinations for the bolshevization of Europe is exactly similar to that of China in East Asia we can readily see the ways of the Comintern in Europe. And Japan is prepared, as ever, to join forces with Germany and Italy for fighting against Red operations ín accordance with the spirit of the anti-Comintern agreement."
In regard to the China question the spokesman said there would be mo change in Japan's policy in the. Sino-Japanese conflict irrespective of the European situation.
It was understood here today that no Japanese residents of Czechoslovakia, Germany, France or Great Britain had yet been advised to withdraw from those countries—Domei
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