There is a widespread belief Holy that Germany aims to make Japan function as a hammer against England and France in Asia, hence it making an effort to leave Japan free for that. purpose.
The despatch said this would only be attained through a Japanese Soviet rapprochement.
Confirmation of this was seen in the invitation of Gen. Juichi Terauchi, head of the Japanese military mission ow visiting in Berlin, to meet Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop, accord-Ing to the dispatch as quoted in the japan Times."
The despatch pointed out that this meeting would mark the turning Point in Japanese-Soviet relations.
'Many Rome observers, the despatch claimed, believed Gen, Terauchi might return' to Tokyo by way of Sibera, stopping in Moscow to confer with Stalin and Molotov.—United Press.
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