GERMAN-JAPANESE PACT.
BRITISH ATTITUDE
FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN NATIONS
| (British Official Wireless. I (Received December 1, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, November 30. Questioned in the House of Commons regarding the agreement signed at Be:-, lin on November 25 by representatives of the German and Japanese Governments, the Foreign Secretary (Mr. 'Anthony Eden) said that the text wa3 communicated shortly before publication to the British Ambassadors in Berlin and Tokio. In making this communication the German Foreign Minister assured the Ambassador that there was no kind of military or other alliance between Germany and Japan, and the Japanese Foreign Minister stated that there was no secret treaty at all. Mr. Eden said he had no information that Italy had yet entered into a similar agreement with Japan. "As regards the attitude of his Majesty's Government," he added, "the House is aware that it has explicity deprecated any tendency to divide the world into conflicting camps, especially on ideological grounds. Its policy continues to be to promote as far as lie 3 in its power friendly relations between all nations."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 9
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