The Archive · 1940

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Japanese Press Discern Division Between Britain, U.S. Over Nanking Regime

Tokyo, Apr. 2.

A strong contrast in the British and American attitudes towards the reorganized "National Government of China" inaugurated in (Nanking last Sauurday was discerned by the "Asahi" chain' of newspapers today in an editorial "commenting ón the statement issued by the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, on the day of the new administration's advent.

London, the newspapers noted, had kept silent, refraining from making an official observation on the estab-

Lshment of tae new government.

The American attitude, manifested in Mr. Hull's statement, they added, did not convey a fresh impression to Japan as this had long been.expected.

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