New York, Nov. 16.
The New York "Post" warned the United States today that the Allied Powers were "wooing Japan" and recalled that Britain and France failed to support the United States in her firm stand against the Japanese conquest of Manchoukuo in 1931.
The withdrawal of British and French troops from China. the paper said in an editorial entitled "The Wooing of Japan," stresses the importance of an independent American policy in the Far East.
The paper, which is noted for its liberal tendencies, said there was no reason for a softening of the American attitude in the Orient as a result of the withdrawal of British and French troops.
"We have nothing to gain and everything to lose if we surrender our independent policy," the paper said. "It is quite clear that the Allies are bargaining with Japan.
"A strange repetition of the 1931 crisis is arising. In 1931 we.alone protested strongly against the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.and Britain left the United States isolated and
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