Japan is seeking to establish an inviolable Far Eastern empire similar in many respects to the Western Hemisphere "stronghold of Democracy," he said.
"It would seem to some impartial observers," Senator Reynolds said, "that Japan has an equal right to seek, to establish her influence there it the United States intends to move against aggressor nations in whatever section' of the world fundamental American policy is violated."
Senator Reynolds praised the Pan-American movement and approved rearmament to make the Western H impregnable against foreign invasion.
"We walk on -thin ice, However, when we lend China $25,000,000 to carry on its conflict with Japan when we have given notice to the world that we would fight to defend the Western Hemisphere against outside non-American influence and encroachment," he said. "That is blowing hot with one breath and cold with another. We have to be more consistent.'—United Press.
At any rate, Britain will seriously increase export credits -guarantees in favour of China, they stated. Practicktly thet whole of the '£500,000 credits already granted China will be absorbed by deliveries of trucks and repair materials destined to be utilize ed on the new. Mandalay-Yunnenfu road. The projected construction of a railway will require new, much more considerable credits, it was pointed out.
The British: Government are likely to wait for Washington's decision on U.S. neutrality legislation before contacting the United States on the question of common economic pressure upon Japan, politicians declared. Advocates of the "counter-offensive" policy as the sole means of protecting British interests in China are now gaining ground, they added.
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