The Foreign Minister asserted that "it is too much to assume that economic pressure against Japan has been precipitously increased." He described as "erroneous" the assumption that assistance being extended by Britain and the United States to the regime of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek represented economic pressure being exerted by those Powers against Japan.
Mr. Arita reiterated that Japan did not intend to "shut the door" to China to other Powers.
The establishment of a new order in East Asia proposed by Japan will enable "all people to assume their proper place," he declared.
Baron Sakamoto, in his interpellation, had asked whether or not the Foreign Minister believed that Chancellor Hitler's unequivocal support of Japan, voiced in his address on Monday, had made Britain, France and the United States reflect upon their position in Asia. He also asked if Japan was making preparations to withstand economic pressure from those three Powers.
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