Tokyo, July 3.
Japan's announced official determination to respect both the Tripar-
niéutrality pact was reported today tie Pact and the Soviet-Japanese to have been the result of an agreement between Tokyo and Berlin under which Japan would continue efforts to prevent United States participation in the European war in return for recognition by the Tripartite powers of the Nanking Government, The Japanese believed that ra-cognition of Nanknig bostered Tokyo's policy of seeking to achieve disintegration of Chungking through support of Mr. Wang Ching-wei—and as far as Japan is concerned, settlement of the China conflict is her predominantly major problem.
Non-Axis observers believed that recognition of the Nanking Government prevented Japan from adopting completely independent international policy, and as a result this conceivably could be considered an-ether German diplomatic victory.
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