The Archive · 1940

Fumimaro Konoye

The Prime Minister, as well as the naval and military authorities, Mr. Yuki added, share these views.

"All I can say of Japan's diplomacy," he said, "is that it is her immutable policy to advance southward. But this must be entirely in the direen of liberating the races of East Asia, and on a basis of morality.

"The object of our advance is economic," Mr, Yuki de-ud even if we must stand ry with other nations as a result of this policy, we must not lose sight of the fundamental moral and economic aims of our endeavours."—Havas.

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