"The Times" Speculates On What Japan Could Have Gained London, Oct. 4.
"While the motives of Nazi diplomacy are transparent, reflection has done little to elucidate the question of what Japan can have hoped to gain from closer association with the Axis," says "The Times" in a leading article discussing the case of Japan in relation to the new tripartite pact.
"Japanese statesmen," the newspaper continues, "have, no doubt, found it plausible to argue that if Germany defeated Britain and immobilized the United States by a threat of intervention in the Americas, Japan would remain undisputed mistress in the Pacific.
"The familiar process of wishful thinking may have made it possible for them to believe that Germany hed it in her power to achieve those results.
"But granted these assumptions, Japan was already drawing every advantage open to her from the state of War in Europe. Germany was already making, and was bound to make, a supreme effort to crush Bri-[tain and neutralize America. She [cannot do more than she is doing, even to please Japan.
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