Friendly relations between Japan end Germany, "The Times" corres pondent proceeds, have not served to prevent interference with German trade in those parts of China where the Japanese have gained control, and German experience of Japanese methods in Manchoukuo makes the idea of their extension to China, as whole, something of a nightmare.
There are other more influential circles, however, to which the commercial price of the anti-Comintern Pact may appear to have been worthwhile, the correspondent declares, Japan's policy has been, and may continue to be, helpful to the Reich in so far as it offers strong inducement to Great Britain and France to come to terms with Germany in Europe.
The solidarity of Europe in the face of the yellow races is a favourite theme in private Nazi circles, "The Times" correspondent concludes, but, apparently, it must await satisfaction of Germany's claims on the Western Powers.
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