Paris, June 20.
The attitude of the United States in the Tientsin affair is widely dis. cussed today by the press, some papers declaring that America holds the balance there.
The "Figaro" considers that a big service Japan is rendering the Axis is by putting to the test the degree of passivity of the United States in a part of the world where Americans are directly interested.
The attitude of the United States, it states, eventually will give a true significance to the Ti€ntsin affair.
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