The Archive · 1939

British Poll on Japan War Feeling Considerable Apathy Shown Over Far East Dispute

London, July 25, Twenty-two per cent. of all British males are ready to fight Japan if such action becomes necessary for the protection of British interests in China, the "News Chronicle" reported yesterday in publishing the results of a recent poll by the British Institute of Public Opinion on Anglo-Japanese relations.

Thirty-seven per cent. of all Britons would forbid all British trade with Japan end the extension of British credits to Japan, the poll indicated, Seventeen per cent. of those voting favoured the extension of British credits to China. Only nine per cent, favoured the withdrawal of the British Ambassador from Tokyo, Fifteen per cent. of the voters favoured doing nothing in the present Far Eastern conflict—United Press, in 3 seconds

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