The Archive · 1940

Press Attack U.S

The Japanese press today renewed attacks on the United States for ob-

Chungking Government for the purchase of: war materials to "kill Japanese soldiers."

The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" charged the United States with treating the Chinese like "slaves." Although the US. demands that the open door in China be maintained, it discriminates against orientals, including the Japanese and Chinese, the newspaper "said. The Chinese are treated as if they were "beasts" by Americans in. thie United States, the newspaper charged.

The United. States desires to keep China on a semi-colonial status and has been insisting that the Nine Power Pact be adhered to for this purpose, the newspaper continued. Japan is giving "very serious attention" to American aid to Chungking the proposed embargo. against Japan now pending: before Congress, the newspaper declared, Japan considers the prospect, of an embargo a continuous threat. og, KY; newspaper said, would be a m term to use in bing American activity in Chinese resistance against Japan,

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