The Archive · 1939

Japan Disappointing

No Substantial Results Seen Wet

Berlin, June 8 No substantial results had as yet been attained in German-Japanese parleys for reinforcement of the Anti-Comintern Pact, most political quarters here said tonight.

Despite the optimism shown in local Japanese circles for a long time, actual means of strengthening ihe Pact still appeared vague this evening.

New suggestions were received from Tokyo, but they insisted mainly on the aid that the axis powers could give Japan in the Far East, the same quarters said.

Meanwhile, Nazi circles were seen to be disappointed today by the development of the general European situation.

Even as the press chanted hymns of triumph over the conclusion of nonaggression pacts with Esthonia and Latvia, these Nazis remarked with some feeling that their Fuehrer had lately lo two speeches—with no mention of the Danzig problem.

Some diplomats sought to spread rumours that Polish-German parleys and even British suggestions to Berlin for a compromise between Germany and Poland were responsible for this reticence.

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