The Archive · 1940

Increased U.S. Pressure

If the United States does not change its attitude, however, America may be forced into war, the paper warned.

The paper pointed out that up to present there has been no indication that the United States is prepared to alter her attitude toward Japan. The United States, the paper pointed out, has been increasing its pressure against Japan by such measures as the extension of a new loan to the Chungking Government and the declaration of embargoes aimed against The paper also criticized the United States for its efforts to obtain the reopening of the Burma Highway for the shipment of war supplies 4o the Chungking Government.

The paper said that suggestions recently made for a joint Japanese-American commission to study the situation in the Far East had come too late to change America's attitude toward Japan.—United Press.

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