Tokyo, Apr. 2.
Future British and American action in the Far East depends on Japan's policy and therefore the Policy of "currying favour with Britain and the United States" is not justified, Mr. Yoshitaro Shimizu, Japanese international expert, declared yesterday.
Mr. Shimizu, in an article in the "Hochi Shimbun," asserted that the course of the Soviet Union will be the deciding factor in directing British and American policy. He said he believed that the two democracies would move to block any Soviet move in the Far East. Japan, however. can direct the action of the Soviet Union and thus lead the democracies away from the Far East, he declared, Mr. Shimizu said that Japan's present policy is leading the acti ties of Britain, the United States and the Soviet directly to China in Opposition to Japan and "if things keep on this way Japan will have to fight all three of them."
"If the Soviet Union were made to look toward the west," Mr. Shimizu said, "the United States and Britain would look in the same direction. If the Soviet Union should move toward the east, those two Powers would follow in the same- direction. It may therefore be seen clearly that Japan holds the key with which to lead these Powers in whichever direction it prefers. Hence it is disapprove of Arita's foreign Lonirast Seen in
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