The Archive · 1941

Anti-American Posters Appear in Tokyo

Tokyo, May 2.

Anti-American posters, post= prominent street corners, speared throughout Tokyo The ultra-nationalistic or-posted the banners, composed yellow cloth. bearing. in black. Japanese ideographis the slogan "Arm the "entire nation sadeane with areng policy' toward' the" United Biatess"—United Pres instrument of peace, hence logically any other peaceful agreement would be complementary to it. The Japan. ese hold that the recently signed Soviet-Japanese neutrality treaty Ats in the same category.

Japan's primary purpose in her relations with the United States is the negotiation of a new commercial treaty to replace the one abrogated by Washington last year. "The best informed foreign opinion here, however, is that Japan would need to make certain definite concessions in respect to China before negotiations for a now commercial treaty with the United States could achieve any concrete result,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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