Washington, Aug. 2
The statements issued in Tokyo yesterday outlining the basic policies el the new Japanese Government are expected to widen the already great rift in Japanese-American relations, according to unofücial and political circles here last night.
Although officials, led by the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, withheld comment on the statements, it was believed in many Washington circles that the statements themselves presented little new in Japanese policy, but served to formalize great changes which have slowly occurred in Japan's basic internal and external structure during the last decade.
Japan is regarded now as ha admitted abandoning even nominal Parliamentarianism as it is known to the Western Democracies, and has moved closer to a totalitarian regime, although it is recognized that the Japanese Army for several years has exercised extraordinary power compared to those exercised by the armed forces of the Democratic countries.
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