Tokyo, May 31.
Japan's vernacular press today prominently played the statement Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, Foreign Minister, made last night that the Tripartite Part forms an "immutable basis of our foreign policy," generally extending full support to the statement. in a typical by an effort to check propaganda in American newspapers which, in the event it was ignored, might seriously obstruct future action of Japanese diplomacy.
The "Yomiuri Shimbun," commenting on this same phase, said such obstruction might prove to be a serious @mbatrassment to Japan in the Shimbun" seid the refused Japan's "real intentions" and grossly discounted Japan's national power in connection with, the Sino-Japanese hostilities in order to interfere with Japan's programme of establishing a Greater East Asia Ca-Prosperity Sphere. (The "Asahi" claimed that Japanese power, to the contrary, has been advancing despite hostilities in China.)
The newspaper claimed that the tendency of the American press to discount Japan's power and misunderstand Japan's "real intentions" has been intensified since President Roosevelt's fireside chat,—United Press.
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