"Press reports concerning these movements on the part of Britain and the United States originating from British and American sources and elsewhere, are causing increasing misgivings. This has resulted in the contention advanced in some quarters in Japan that Japan should lose no time to take necessary steps to meet the worst eventuality in these regions, "If the American Government could only be persuaded to restrict its activities in this respect to the western hemisphere and avoid causing anxiety unnecessarily in the minds of the Japanese people, the situation will be indeed greatly mitigated, "We are utterly unable to see any good purpose served by prolonging the war whatever the motive may be, The present situation demands statesmanship of a high order, Such statesmanship, we trust, will not be wanting in the British Empire or elsewhere,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.