"Now, such utterances are sheer, stupid blustering that cannot be permitted to circulate for one second.
Japan's foreign policy at the time was centred on the settlement of Soviet-Japanese issues and regulation of her relations with Britain and the United States, "Then came the China Incident.
Despite Japan's policies of rən-expansion and local settlement of the Incident, hostilities spread and friction with other Powers arose. The same mrt of hotheads cried that wor should be waged also with the Soviet Union or that Britain and the United States should be punished. But such reckless proposals as going to war with third countries are utterly untenable as part of our diplomatic policy.
*Japan must regulate her relations with other Powers while pushing her policies at home. The Soviet Union, while carrying out its productivity expansion programme, advocated the doctrine of peace externally and concluded non-aggression pacts with its neighbours. This is becaüse it would not have been to the advantage of the Soviet Union to go to war before it became sufficiently strong. So it cried peace whenever it had any occasion to speak.
"In the same manner, pur policy is to regulate our relations with the Soviet Union and other Powers.
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