TRADE IN CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 11

TRADE IN CHINA

AMERICAN RIGHTS

CRITIC OF JAPANESE POLICY

OUTSPOKEN SENATOR

United Pi-ess Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, February 10. Senator Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered an address in the Senate today so critical of Japanese policy that it is feared it is likely to arouse world-wide attention. He claimed that Japan intends to close the door to China to America "even if war is necessary to accomplish it," and advocated American naval and air forces sufficient to "protect" American rights. "China is still an independent Government at peace with the world and -desirous of trading with us, and there is nothing in the circumstances that can legally or for long physically interfere with such trade," he said. He characterised as arrogant and impertinent alleged statements of Admiral Takahashi that- unless the United States renounces her naval policy aimed at expansion and protection of her foreign trade, Japan will be forced to extend her fleet's cruising radius to New Guinea, the Celebes, and Borneo, ' and to establish a foothold in Formosa and mandated South Sea islands. Senator Pittman declared that Congress would not be bulldozed into the abandonment of national defence and the protection of America's legitimate 'foreign trade or her commerce with China. A NOVEL PREDICTION. Senator Lewis, who recently visited Russia, joined Senator Pittman in the attack on Japan with the novel prediction that Japan and the Soviet would form an alliance against the United States for the domination of Asia to the exclusion of American trade, and would eventually co-operate for the seizure of Alaska and the Philippines.