London, Aug. 5.
The Initiative undertaken by the Japanese Ambassadors to Germany and Taly in favouring a military ale Vance with those two countries is considered in political quarters here. fag merely an attempt to "intimidate" Great Britain over the present negotintions in. Tokyo, These circles believe the statement made in Rome ig but another aspect of the struggle between the Japanese militarists who favour the. alliance and the moderate elements in Japan. who oppose it. The Japanese command, they believe, must be surely aware of the impossibility for Japan to make war simultaneously" upon Great Britain, Soviet Russia, and China,
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