In other words, withdrawal from the Axis is merely the first step for Jaman if she wishes to extricate herself from the predicament she has "nade for herself liv drifting perilously near to war with the United State: and Britain while she is still inaxfrinably entangled in China.
Renorts reaching here from Shang hai tending to show that the United States and Janan are on the threshold ^f a enmnrehensive agreement ar" regarded as fanciful, but reverts from Tokyo sneaking of the optimism there and of the Japanese press pining down in its criticism of America ure received with interest. nerticnlarly as it is reported private iv that even jingoistic and belligerent zrmv leaders in Tokyo have grown sufficiently nervous to contemplate withdrawal from the Axis in order to avert the effect of continually wor-soning relations with the United States.—Reuter.
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