(Continued from page 1) seeking to resume diplomatic contacts with General Chiang Kai-shek's regime and to improve her relations with Soviet Russia. The latter state is doing all it can to divert Japan from the Far East to other spheres such as the South Seas. This has resulted in Japan's peaceful intervention on the Indo-China peninsula and her hopes to establish relations with the Netherlands East Indies such as would grant her preferential treatment in commercial exchanges.
On the other hard, Japan is view ing the United States with suspicion. and the latter's attitude is the subject of a number of statements made by prominent Japanese leaders, such as the Foreign Minister, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka,
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