The Archive · 1939

Japanese Warn America

Policy in Asia Will Not Be Changed by Threats, State Papers; Pact with Russia Advocated Tokyo, Nov. 8. (THE Japanese press launched a new attack against the United States today, particularly against the huge American naval expansion programme and the embargo threat aimed at Japan yesterday by the Chairman of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Key Pittman.

The recent actions of the United States toward Japan, the Japanese press alleged, constitute "'attempts to coerce Japan."

"Japan," the papers said, "will not bow to "American threats) and_will pursue her plans for a "New Order East Asia'

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