JAPANS PLANS FOR ASIA

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23588, 16 March 1942, Page 6

JAPANS PLANS FOR ASIA

—* — CO-OPERATION WITH HER ALLIES FUTURE OF WHITE RACE IN EAST LONDON, March 14. A Vichy News Agency dispatch from Berne quotes a Berlin message in the “Neuezuercher Zeitung” of an interview given by Lieutenant-General Hiroshi Oshima, Japanese Ambassador to Germany, to the “Deutsch Allgemeine Zeitung, in which Mr Oshima is stated to have endeavoured to calm fears, "which exist even outside British Saxon countries,” on the subject of the future of the white race in the Far East. Mr Oshima declares that Japan, in taking possession of Greater East Asia, is basing herself on the Tripartite Pact. "Japan and friendly Powers are cooperating in the wish to institute a new order throughout the whole world,” he said. ‘Their efforts should have the enduring effect of a legitimate and sacred aim, but this demands mutual confidence, As regards the economic position, our existence and joint prosperity will be realised by acting in such a way that we are closely complementary to one another. It goes without saying that the raw materials of Greater Asia will be at the disposal of the Powers allied to Japarf, in the same way that it is essential that these territories shall receive German machinery. “We know weil that if Japan wanted to close the doors of Asia for egoistic motives and institute a monopoly of raw materials, she would repeat mistakes made by Britain and Holland. Such an attitude would render impossible the institution of the new order of Greater Asia in the Far East.” Mr Oshima declared the policy of destruction in Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies had not gone as far as the enemy desired. Thus, before the end even of the fighting rubber from Malaya had arrived in Japan.