The Archive · 1939

Japan Urged to Stand Fast

NEWS FROM JAPAN — Tokyo Financial Daily Says Concessions to U.S

Would Mean "Suicide"; Foreign Aid Not Necessary Tokyo, Nov. 6.

APAN should not "commit suicide" to satisfy America, the} "Chugai Shogyo," Japan's leading commercial daily news-pager, urged editorially today in commenting on the proposed readjustment of relations between the two countries.

The sacrifice Japan should make to obtain a revision of the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation should be limited," the paper advocated.

"It is unthinkable that Japan should change her policy regarding the disposal of the China affair by ingratiating America in order to renew this trade treaty." span's mission in the Far East is too sacred and i t to be affected by trade relations with the United States.

"Bven assuming that the trade treaty" is allowed to expire and JAmerica brings all kinds of restric~ ions and prohibitions she can legally and theoretically Impose on Japan. the paper added, "Japan "should never abandon her fundamental policy fof establishing a new order in the For East, or be satisfied with such Sino-Japanese relations as. prevailed fat the time of the conclusion of the Japan Determined on New Order in Asia Tokyo, Nov. 10.

The China incident has become complicated because of the changed International situation but Japan is [determined to carry out the establish ment of the new order in Bast Asia, General Shunroku Hata, War Miniser, announced today in his frst interview with the press.

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