THE PACIFIC THEATRE.
INVOLVING THE UNITED STATES.
IMPEDING AID TO BRITAIN.
(Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) LOiNIDON, September 27
The’ Shanghai authorities regard the alliance as an Axis victory in the sense of that Japan’s Fleet can now be employed to immobilise the United States Navy in the Pacific, and possibly even involve the United States in a Pacific ■War, thus impeding American activities to aid Britain.
The first reaction in Washington is to intensify the defences, especially the
two ocean navy, and to strengthen the outlying defences in the Pacific and the Atlantic.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 302, 28 September 1940, Page 5
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