JAPANESE POLICY
NO ENTANGLEMENT
CONCENTRATION ON CHINA
WASHINGTON, September 21. The new Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kensuke Horiouchi, in a statement, said that the Russo-Japanese Agreement ending border warfare was not consummated through Germany's good offices and should not be regarded as the preliminary to a non-aggression pact or any move for close association between the Soviet and Japan. He added. that Japan had given friendly advice to England and France to withdraw troops from China lest Japan be involved in the ' European war. Japan's policy was to avoid entanglement and to concentrate on a settlement of the "China affair."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7
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99JAPANESE POLICY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 72, 22 September 1939, Page 7
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