The Archive · 1940

New Foreign Policy Urged in Japan

Tokyo, June 8 Abandonment of Japan's policy of non-favolvement In ihe European war was advocated here today by the nationalist "newspaper "Kokumin" which urged "positive measures" to cope with possible spread of the conflict to the Far East.

The- paper's comment came in an editorial dealing with the reported French-American negotiations for transfer of the French Concession in Shanghai to United States guardian-ship.

The "Hoshi" likewise charged. America with antagonism toward Japan, declaring, "Like the Soviet Union, "America has been assisting the Chungking regime and Japan should resort to such steps as. will dispose of the question once and for

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