The Archive · 1939

Pressure on Japanese Demanded

New York Daily Urges Settlement in East New York, Dec. 19.

The New York "Post" today editorially urged the United States to pring enormous pressure to bear against Japan to bring about a "decent settlement" in the Far East.

"The onus rests upon this country," the editorial said, "because we are almost exclusively arming the aggressor."

The editorial, entitled "Chinese Make Progress," pointed out that the centring of American public attention on the European war had obsecured some recent major Chinese military achievements, including the reported sinking of a Japanese warship on the Yangtze River "The Japanese military machine," the paper said, "seems to be bogged own as never before in the long Chinese stalemate."—United Press.

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