Washington, Nov. 11.
States relations with Japan have grown more tense since Tokyo joined the Rome-Berlin axis, with the steady development of national psychological factors which tend to complicate the vexed diplomatic and political relations, informed observers noted here today.
Although serious circles here are not fet ready to predict the probability of war between the two countries, many observers think that Japan has taken a course which will constrain the United tates to a "firm" policy in the Pacific with naval strength as a silent aid to diplomacy.
The American "man on the street," justly or unjustly, has gained the conviction that Japan for reasons of her own insists upon the solution of diplomatic and political problems by resort to force.
The Manchurian occupation, the invasion of North China. the subsequent extension of military opera-"ions to nearly all sections of China, the Panay incident, the. repeated air-bombings of Chinese cities, and the armed invasion of French Indo-China. have caused a popular opinion that Japanese policy cannot divorce itself from violence. Japan's recent to employ violence against the Dutch East Indies.
Japanese opinion, according to reports, thinks that' America has not understood nor correctly apr the urgent facts of population, economies, and external incitation which have given logic to her Far Eastern policy. Japan thought that the Western powers were slow to recognize her rise among the nations and tp concede the international implications of her growth in wealth, industrial strength, and necessity for a national destiny.
The Japanese also harboured some disappointment for years over such United States acts as the Japanese exclusion law of 1924 which they regarded as an affront to their race; and the California land restriction laws which Japanese considered discriminatory against them because of their race and their economic proficiency.
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