In some quarters it is predicted that it will announce Japan's formal withdrawal from the Nine-Power Treaty, but others believe it will merely point out that the pact has outlived its usefulness, and urge the United States to recognize Japan's "special position in China."
The American Note, together with &ccounts of American reaction to Japan's reported intention to substi-lute the Nine-Power Treaty with a three-Power pact between Japan, China and Manchoukuo, form the subject of much criticism in the Japanese press.
The "Asahi," pleading that perpetuation of ' outmoded treaties is doomed to fail makes the striking comment that "The trend of reality is almighty."
"With the outbreak of the China Incident as a turning-point, the attempts made by Great Britain and the United Staies to prevent Japan from gaining hegemony over the Far East have," the "Asahi" declares, "ended in complete failure,"
The journal appeals to the Powers io recognize the new situation in East Asia. "Ever since the outbreak of the Incident," it says, "Japan has persistently pursued its destined course of rooting out the anti-Japanese regime in China. Japan is determined to offer wholehearted help to the new regimes in China and to establish z new East Asia in close concert with them.
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