London, Nov. 3.
The "Financial Times" in an article published today, deplores the complacency of Mr. Neville Chamberlain's reference to the Far East in sibility for a system to a special Ministei It also declares approval of the Governments determination to complete with the utmost speed measures necessary to provide for the country's needs.
Sir John Anderson, who the special Minister, will make his debut as a member of the Cabinet in the course of the Parliament on November 1, especially so soon after the unusually strongly-worded note from Washington to Japan.
The British Government, says the journal, has never made a general demarche of this nature.
The failure of Great Britain and America to ce-operate in the Far East, it proceeds, has frequently been a matter for surprised comment.
The "Financial Times" recalls the recent boast made by Mr. T. Shiratori, Japanese Ambassador to Italy, that British pre-eminence in China has ended and that the new China created by Japan will be a seond Manchoukuo.
"This is evidently," the newspaper continues, "a genuine expression of the wishes of those controlling Japan. We know from past experience that totalitarian countries are capable of defying a good many nineteenth century laws concerning supply -and capital.
"The whole subject deserves a more thorough discussion than it has yet received in this country.
"The British Government should consider more effective means at our disposal for bringing pressure to bear on Japan than the polite interchange of opinion which for some months has been going on between Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan, and the Foreign Office in Tokyo.—Reuter.
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