"Japan Times" Says U.S.A.
Has Made Enemy of Japan Tokyo. Sept. 28.
Warning that hostile action by any state against Japan would result in joint retaliatory action by Japan, and italy, the "Japan Times." reputed Foreign Office. mouthpiece, charged that the US. State Department had so bungled its international affairs as to make enemy of Japan.
The "Japan Times. whose opinions often have been linked with official viewpoints of the Foreign Office. lashed out againt the United States in commenting on the signing of the tripartite pact One of the pact's immediate effects, it said. was that if "any hostile action is taken against Japan in the Pacifi the United States or any other Power, it will be met by the joint hostile action of Japan, Germany and Italy.
"This, might give America a pause. Particularly might the whole treaty cause' the American people to sit back and take stock of the State Department which has so bungled its international affairs to the effect that it has. made an enemy of Japan. involved Britain in new difficulties, done no good to the United States and brought the war perilously close to the Pacific Ocean."—United Pre:
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