Tokyo, Dec. 6.
If the United States does not want to go to war with Japan she should "reconsider her attitude," the "Miyako Shimbun" said today.
"We take this occasion to tell frankly the American Government and people that the Japanese people, until recently, thought the Soviel and Japan incompatible," the newspaper said, "and no one thought a Japanese-American war possible.
"Of late, Japanese sentiment towards the Soviet has beea greatly appeased, while sentiment toward America has stiffened, because of the American abrogation of the commercial treaty, demands for an embargo, attempts to interfere in East Asia, d threats to Japan by concentrating he fleet in the Pacifi f America does not want war ith Japan, America should reconsider her attitude."
More Constructive Attitude"
The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" said that Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Foreign Minister, told his Cabinet advisers yesterday that his meeting with Mr. Joseph C. Grew, United States Ambassador to Japan, last Monday indicated that "the United States attitude has become somewhat more constructive" compared with the attitude revealed by his previous conference with Mr, Grew.
Referring to the Soviet Union, the newspaper said that Italy and Germany both have non-aggression pacts with Russia, but "there are indications that these Powers at the bottom of their hearts feel apprehensive."
The "Yomiuri" warned the United States against forcing Japan into the arms of Russia, Meanwhile, the Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, said the Japanese Government does not consider the American fleet in the Pacific as a threat against Japan. He id that Admiral Nomura had not mentioned the fleet during his conversation with Mr. Grew last Monday,
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