Tokyo, Sept. 29.
Increased economic pressure rds Japan by the extension of the American embargo will not bring serious hardships to Japan, the "Yomiuri Shimbun," one of the big newspapers in Tokyo, editorially declared today in speculating on possible United States moves.
In meeting the situation created by the embargo of scrap iron and steel, Japan can convert its production, organization and use of tron ore from various parts of East Asia, while technical assistance from Germany and Italy under the tripartite pact will increase and improve Japanese steel manufacture, the journal pointed out, American refusal to buy Japanese silk can be countered by the refusal io buy American raw cotton. "In that case America's difficulties will be double those of Japan," the "Yomiuri Shimbun" concluded.
Declaring that the "new order rapidly is taking shape both internally ie American-owned here characterized the triple alliance zs "the major diplomatic move in recent years," ranking with the Soviet-Nazi nonaggression pact.
Noting that while no specific Power was mentioned in the text of the pact, the "Japan Advertiser" declared, "It is obvious that the pact is directed mainly against the United States, for the Soviet Union is exempted from its application."
The American daily further remarked the pact meant that "if the United States should enter the European war it must be prepared to face war in two oceans simultaneously."—Domei.
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