New York, Dec. 28.
The New York "Daily News" yesterday announced its opposition to any acquiescence by the United States io the establishment of a modus vivendi upon the termination of the Japanese-American trade pact.
"The only thing the Japanese military mind understands is firmness and strength," the newspaper said in an editorial. "The way to put the squeeze on the Japanese jingoes is to clap an embargo on raw materials as soon as the treaty expires and keep it in force until the Japanese Government agrees to drop the Chinese war."
The "Daily News" warned that otherwise Japan would organize China as a huge arsenal warehouse and man power reservoir and menace western civilization.—United Press.
Modus Vivendi Objected To Tokyo, Dec. 28.
Strong objections to the reported American intention of making a proposed modus vivendi between the United States and Japan cancellable unilaterally without notice were voiced in authoritative Japanese circles today.
The inclusion of such a provision in the projected instrument would place American-Japanese trade relations on a day-to-day basis, they pointed out. Such uncertainty would entail heavy losses by business men both sides as they would be reluctant to make long-term commitmenis in such circumstances, these quarters declared.
Japan's readiness to enter into immediate conversations for the conclusion of a modus vivendi with the United States to assure a continued legal basis for trade between the two countries was understood to have been communicated to the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, by Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese Ambassador in Washington, in their interview last Saturday.
Time Insufficient The Japanese envoy was further reported to have stated that his Government was agreeable to the conclusion of such a temporary agreement only because time was insufficient to conduct negotiations for a revision of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the United States expiring on January 26 A proposal for the opening of negotiations for a new treaty as soon as talks for a modus vivendi are begun was also understood to have been made by Mr. Horinouchi.
The immediate cancellation provision in the proposed modus vivendi, referred to in American dispatches as the "good behaviour clause" indicating that the Washington authorities intended to use it as a means to bring pressure to bear upon Japan in their dealings with Tokyo regarding China, was held here to be unjust in that it would nullify the spirit of a modus vivendi which accorded a legal basis for trade between the two countries.—Domei,
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