Tokyo, Dec. 16.
Commenting on, America's Pan-American policy, the "Asahi Shimbun," influential daily, declares in an editorial today that the speech delivered by Mr. Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, at the Pan-American Conference at Lima is a "re-announcement of the Monroe Doctrine in a new form, it is easy to see from the tone of Mr. Hull's speech, the journal asserts, that the United States is desirous of establishing a federal system of government—in other words, a new order in the Western Hemisphere similar to that which Japan is now contemplating in East Asia, It is natural for ihe United States io seek the creation of a new order, it continues, so that all American Republics will ce-operate in dealing with problems of common interest to them.
However, the "Asahi Shimbun" asserts, "beyond our understanding is the 4act that, while the United States herself is pursuing a Pan-American policy, shë la unsympathetic towards Japan in het effort to establish a new order in the Far East. On the contrary, America insists on the observance of the ptintiple of the Open Door and equal opportunity in China, which no longer is applicable to present conditions in Eust Asia,"—Reuter.
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