TALKS WILL GO ON, TOKIO DECIDES

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 59, 3 December 1941, Page 7

TALKS WILL GO ON, TOKIO DECIDES

Pacific Crisis Simmers JAPANESE MAY NOW FEEL LESS WARLIKE (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright.) , LONDON, December 2. The Japanese Cabinet will meet again today a few hours before the Washington talks in the Pacific crisis are resumed. The Japanese news agency said yesterday that the Cabinet had decided to continue the negotiations with the United States. The American Associated Press commentator in New York, Mr. Dewitt Mackenzie, said: “Japan’s decision to continue the negotiations is not surprising, since it bears out the indications that Tokio is anxious to evade a conflict with America. The decision was, of course, impelled by necessity, and it may even be that it is calculated to give the Japanese more time to try to make up their minds who is going to win the European war . . . it is quite possible that the German reverses in the recent critical hours and the Japanese Cabinet’s debate have influenced the decision to continue the negotiations." The Tokio Cabinet spokesman today reiterated the wide difference in the Japanese and American viewpoints, but said the talks will go on till the last moment. About the outcome, he added: "We must wait and see.” The Tokio Press is still declaring that a settlement lies with the United States. Answering this, the “New York Times states: "If the question is one of buying a phony peace by selling out China, we are not interested, and never shall be.