The Archive · 1939

Modern Diplomatic Method

The Japanese version, the correspondent says, must be regarded partly as a normal manifestation of the modern diplomatic method, familiar both in Berlin and Tokyo, whereby propagandist objects are regarded as of great importance and accuracy of fact as of slight importance, and partly perhaps as a method encouraging Japanese popular opinion not to recognize the real nature of the facts when they become known from official statements in London and Tokyo tomorrow.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Neville Chamberlain will make it clear that the British Government have merely agreed to discuss, in the course of talks, some of the points which the Japanese have raised, declares the Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Sunday Express." Actual agreement, he adds, has not been reached on anything except to carry on the talks.—Reuter.

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