Tokyo, Aug. 27.
The drive to eliminate foreign influences from Japan continued here today when it was announced that leaders of the Japan-Manchoukuo Rotary Club, after conferences with the Foreign and Home Ministries and the gendarmerie, decided to propose the club's withdrawal from the Rotary International and its reorganization on sheer Japanese national lines.
The final decision is slated to be made at the joint committee meeting of the Japanese and Manchoukuoan branches of the club on September 4.
Meanwhile, 60 representatives of Japanese Christian Associations late last night discussed the reorganization of their respective groups. Proposals to oust resident foreign clergymen and to prohibit financing from the United States and Britain, as well embargo on Japan.
He stated that any application of sanctions or threats of an embargo by the United States, if not backed up by force, might easily persuade the Japanese that their best course would be to seize the Indies and assure themselves a constant flow of- supply Dr. Van Hoogestraten pointed out that the East Indies are the natural bulwark of Australia and New Zealand and that independence of the colony is imperative to the security of these countries. A movement is now under way to strengthen economic and political ties of the East Indies with Australia and New Zealand.
There has been considerable talk of incorporation of the East Indies into the British Commonwealth as a means of self-protection but so far this has not advanced beyond the talking, stage.
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