Tokyo, Jan, 6, America has been actively seeking. to promote her trade with the Soviets by supplying the Soviet Union with all aswell as machinery In. effort to win the Soviet Union over {o the Anglo-American camp, declares the "Yomiuri, Shimbun" tod:
"This American attitude is" altributed, according to the "'Yornuiri," to the requirements of her policy of assisting Britain as well as defending her own position in the Pacific in the face of the impending crisis in that From the Soviet side it is evident that such a trade improvement. is highly desirable as the Soviet Union finds the European market, with the exception of Germany, closed while commerce with Britain is in the doldrums and trade with Japan at a standstill, However, the paper states that the statement by the Dies Committee investigating un american activities, alleging Soviet ancial agencies in the United States have been actively helping the Axis to purchase essontint war materials and the announcement by the British Minister of Economic Warfare, Mr, "Hugh Dalton, that American raw colton and rubber and serap iron has been reaching Ger many through Vladivostok should serve to enhance opposition to cordial relations between the United States and the Soviet—Reuter,
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