The paper sees as significant the fect that the capital showing the greater alarm over the week-end was Tokyo. It quotes Mr. Hugh Byas as saying that the sudden vision of war with the United States has crystallized fluid opposition in Japan to a south+ ward expansion, but the paper warns that much faith cannot be placed in the wishes of the Japanese people to remain at peace with the United States, because the decision does not rest in their hands but in the hands of the Japanese army and navy chieftains, who are more likely to be deterred by the realism that aggressive moves in south-east Asia will be met firmly by all interested Powers.
The journal concludes by advocating; the speeding up of a complete understanding between the United States, Britain, Australia and the Netherlands regarding the course to be pursued in face of Japanese southward pressure.—Reuter.
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