London, June 12.
If it were possible to find one good yeason why Japan should wish to }rovoke an open breach with Great Britain, one would be forced to say that was now her evident intention, Geelares: the "Manchester Guardian® a leading article today.
Is Great Britain, which has done more than the United States, and rather, less than Germany, to. helly China." asks the newspaper, "singled hatred for any particular rea. son, or is she merely" a Foreign Concessions Bar Japan's Success Tokyo, June 5.
Opinion is growing in Japan that the extra-territorial rights enjoyed by Uther Third Power nationals, and particularly the international settlements and concessions which they control, must be abolished if Japan to achieve control of China's. sovereignty.
'A typical view of the situation expressed by the "Miyako Shimbun, which say It "has required two years hostilities in China for us Japanese to understand the true nature of the The only way to dispose of the China incident is to deal effectively with those foreign countries which are supporting the Chiang Kai-shek The true intentions of those Powers towards the incident have been revealed by their attitude towards the question of international "settlenents and concessions. in Chin 'The Ianding of British, "American und French armed forces on Kulangsu, Ysland, as a. demonstration against Japan, left no doubt of the nature the policy of those Powers. towards the Ching Incident Britain, America and France are as firmly' determined to assist China in carrying on her resistance Japan, as is the Soviet Union, which has recently been active along. the Outer Mongolian-Manchoukuo border with the aim of helping the Chiang, regime in the struggle against this country.—Reuter, No Reason for U.S, and Japanese Friction Tokyo, June 6.
Give us a free hand in the Far East, Leave us alone to carry out 'Our programmes for the realisation of lasting peace and the new order in this part of the globe," declared Mr. Ryozo Asano, a noted Japanese me usteialist, and said to be a personal friend of' President Roosevelt, in a press interview today.
Being a Harvard man himself. Mr. Asano is said to have been a Rood {eiend of President Roosevelt "for more than a quarter of a century. borate closely for the development of markets in the East, since there is nothing to bring the two nations "Instead, the interests of Japan and the United States in the Orient are rather complementary.
Mr. Asano said that he saw no reason why the two countries. could not ce-operate with each other econo-tically or otherwise, "since the amount of investments by the United States in the Bast was "comparatively small."
Another reason for ce-operation, he added, was the fact that American exports in this part of the world were secupied largely by petroleum, tobaccoand other commodities, which were searce in Japan—Reuter.
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