As for the Anti was "a smoke-screen by which Japan could carry on her aggression without intervention by European powers." And in turn it enabled Hitler to "threaten the British Empire at both ends of the 8,000-mile ocean lane leading from Australia and New Zo land to London, along wh freighters carry the food which Great Britain needs. Nevertheless it served its purpose for Japan, and she took it seriously for the three years that it lasted, up to the time when Hitler turned and signed his pact with the once-hated Russian government in August 1939; a pact by which Japan became the loser and has been left in a doubtful position ever since. For Japan, "blandly believing she had been pursuing her own sweet way without reference to events in Europe, realized with a jerk that in a world contracting daily there is no such thing as isolated aggression.
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