"It is my earnest hope thit a great nation exerting the influence that the! United States legitimately does. will realize her responsibility for the!
maintenance of peace, will reflect deeply on her attitude with truly' God-fearing piety, will courageously} Niquidate past circumstances, and will bend her utmost efforts to allay the fhnpending crisis on civilization, "The prevailing confusion of the! international situation shows no sign subsiding, but on the contrary It tends to increase. Should the United States unfortunately become involved in the European war, and should Japan, too, be compelled to particle pate in the war, another great world war, both in name and reality, would ensue, precipitating a situation which would defy all attempts at saving it.
"Should the war take {ls furious course unleashing. formidable new weapons which have not hitherto been, used, no cne could guarantee that it could not develop into a war spelling the downfall of modern civilization.
"The 'ThreePower pact has been' concluded for the purpose not only of making sustained efforts for the: establishment of a sphere of common prosperity throughout greater East Asia, but of preventing, in its course, any further extension of present dis:
"We must endeavour to terminate the current war as speedily as poesible and to settle the chaos In which the world is plunged. We must meanwhile study in advance to discern some formula for prevention of the recurrence of any such distur-ances in the future.....
"The establishment of new world order, the goal of the Three-Power pact, if only time is given, will surely accomplished.
There is no room for doubt that cess. japanese people are 4 willie crowned with brilliant sue. fully "and firmly prepared for this task, the future of our Empire will Indeed "be great" and ¢lorious"—
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