The Archive · 1940

New York Press Bitter on Japanese Southward Expansion Moves

Failure to Conquer China Has Brought New Moves, Three Journals State in Editorials

New York, Aug. 6.

Failure to conquer China has resulted in the new Japanese policy of attempting expansion to the south, three local morning newspapers said today in their editorials.

The "New York Times" said, "From both sides of the world aggressors are joining up at a pace that soon will leave us little room for choice or argument."

"There should be just one Occidental reaction to Oriental truculence and the Administration's recent embargo is the correct one," the "New York Herald-Tribune" said.

The "Mirror" declared, "The Japanese talk openly of finding oil and metals in the Netherlands East Indies, where Mr. Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) already has planted a keep out' sign."—United Pre

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