Th the event that United States aid'to the Soviet Union through Vindivostok materialized, Japan would be placed "in a very dangerous. awkward and embarrassing posi-ton," Mr, Koh Ishii, Deputy Spokesman of the Board of Information told foreign correspondents at his regular press conference today. Japan was Watching United States moves with "keen interest," he said.
Asked whether or not there was Ukely to be a change In the Far Eastern situation, Mr. Ishii replied, "IN is very dificult t6 answer." He asserted that Japan must remain faithful. to the Japan-Soviet trade pact if it was ratified by the Privy Council, The agreement was not contrary to the Tripartite Alliance, said, adding that the date of ratification was undecided, "The spokesman revealed that at the time of negotiations for a trade treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union, Jepan did not consider the possibility for a conflict between Germany and the USSR, Mr," Ishii' reiterated that Japan's Jatiitude toward the Soviet-German hostilities could not be mate public as the situation was too delicate, and the added that 9 statement by' the Government, so far, was not planned, "Worldwide Cénflict"
Tokyo, June 21, The "Kokumin," "Yomiuri" and Asahi" this morning—editorially agreed that United States assist to the Soviet Union constituted anker factor tending to extend the European war into a world conflict, "The rightist "Kokumin" declared, "Phe United States which has beet aiding Chiang Kai-shek, fs new: going, fo exert more pressure on Japan's ation, n Bast Asia by ald to Soviet "The daily: endorsed Lieut.-General Rideki Tojo's (Minister for Wor) opinion expressed on June 25 before '9. gathering of war industrialists to The' effect that Japan now was the crossroads of prosperity or ruin, Asserting that the China hostilities Iliad been "Japen's campaign against rear Britain and the United States the "Kokumin" declared that Bri and American aid to the Soviets Would "further complicate the international situation and extend the European war to the Far ust,'
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