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British government quarter: it was added, also have expressed London's willingness to approve the use of her bases by the United States whenever the latter finds it necessary, As a stabilizing power in East Asia, political quarters here stressed, Japan cannot ignore the increasing possibility of a joint use of the Singapore base by Britain and the United States on the pretext of strengthening their mutual defence in the Pacific area, Such a move on the part of the United States, it was added, might well- bring about a complete deterioration of American-Japanese relations.
When Britain and the United States recently agreed on the joint use of naval bases in the Atlantic for mutual defence—purposes, it was stressed, Japan called attention t America's "camouflaged neutrality. Political quarters added that Japan tolerated the Anglo-American agreements by viewing it as a measure which the United States adopted out of the necessity of strengthening her national defence in the face of an overwhelming superiority of the Axis Powers in Europe.
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