GERMANY AND JAPAN
Terms of Anti-Communist Agreement ITALY ALSO INVOLVED ' London, November 17. The Shanghai correspondent of "The Times” states that advices from Tokio refer to the adherence of Italy to the anti-Communist agreement between Japan and Germany and state that under its terms Italy will recognise Manchukuo in return for Japan recognising Abyssinia. This will involve an Italian break at Geneva, but Signor Mussolini is prepared to give the League the alternative of losing Italy or recognising the realities regarding Manchnkuo and Abyssinia. The agreement is a combination pronouncement against Communism and a trade agreement based upon t)ie principle of barter. Manchnkuo r aw materials to be exchanged for German manufactures and soya beans for arms and munitions. It is believed that what the Japanese army principally wants is an exchange of information by which it. would share Germany's technical skill in new inventions.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 11
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