JAPAN STANDS OUT
STATEMENT BY PREMIER
(Received March 30. 10.45 a.m.)
TOKIO, March 29. The Foreign Office spokesman declared today that, though Japan was negotiating to strengthen the AntiComintern Pact, she was definitely not joining an alliance against the democracies.
"Japan belongs neither to the totalitarian nor the democratic blocs," Baron Hiranuma, Prime Minister, told the Japanese Press. He said that Japan did not wish to antagonise either bloc and went on to hint at a strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact, adding that relations with England and America also needed readjustment. Japan was ready to co-operate with anyone who supported her plan for a new order in Asia. Japan was resolved to become self-supporting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 9
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