Moscow, Oct. 19, Soviet Government quarters feel that Japan is at present both unwilling and unable to embark on a policy "decisively hostile" towards Russia, close observers of the situation here remarked today.
Despite the recent resignation of his, Foreign Affairs post by the moderate General Kazushige Ugaki and the control of Japanese foreign policy by military elements, Tokyo cannot now take any too definite anti-Soviet decisions, it is believed.
Prevalent opinion is that such a policy would gompel Japan to arrive at some sort of compromise with the Chinese Generalissimo, Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, and this is considered highly unlikely for, observers assert, "Neither Japan nor China can halt the war in its present stage.
"Japan has lost all chances of making any pacific gesture in China. Therefore, Japan will need all her forces in China, and this excludes possibilities of Japanese military action against the Soviets," observers state.
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