Tokyo, Nov, 29.
Preparations for an expansion of Japanese trade with the Soviet Union, Germany, India, and the Netherlands Cost Indies have been undertaken by the Japanese Government to deal with ihe situation arising from a possible termination of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United States and Japan on January 26, the "Miyako Shimbun," an in-Gependent daily, reported here today. The American Governm: nt gave the stipulated six months' notice of its tention to abrogate the treaty signed in 1911, on July 20.
The American action, the newspaper asserted, had forced a revision of the programme for the expansion of Japanese productive capacity, had caused changes in the 1940-41 draft budget, and brought about a re-examination of Japan's foreign trade relations, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Foreign Minister, the "Miyako" continued, would soon make a report to the Cabinet on the steps contemplated by his department to deal with the slate of affairs brought about by a ternunation of the 1911 agreement with the United States.
The Foreign Minister, the daily added, would then begin to prepare a reply to America's note to Japan regarding American interests in China. This communication, the "Miyako" predicted, would consist of a "frank exposition of the intentions of Japan in China. in view of the tendency of the American public to regard the construction of a New Order in East Asia as an attempt on the part of Japan to set up a dictatorship over the Far East."—Domel,
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