ONLY STEP FROM WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1941, Page 9

ONLY STEP FROM WAR

TOKIO OPINION

"U.S. HAS POWER TO DECIDE"

(Received April 30, 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 29. ! The*" Tokio newspaper "Kokumin jShimbun" declared today that the dejcision of the United States to extend the patrol in Atlantic waters to the 'Western Hemisphere means that the United States is only a step from entering the war.

The "Times-Advertiser," which is controlled by "the Japanese Foreign Office, carried the headline "War Worry Causes General Price Drop" over a story which said tha,t concern is felt on the market that the United States is bracing itself to take the catastrophic plunge into the European war, and this caused a wholesale fall in stocks.

Since the German invasion of the Balkans the general tendency has been for prices to move irregularly upwards.

The "Times-Advertiser," in an editorial, said: "The possibility of peace terms rests upon the United States, hence the United States holds , the power of decision. A grave responsibility rests upon Mr. Roosevelt's shoulders in this critical hour."

The usually temperate newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" described the United States as going headlong into war, and said: "The grim determination of Mr. Roosevelt to take the offensive against the Axis Powers means the letting loose of American patrols on all the seas of the world for convoying United States transports carrying war materials to Britain."—U.P.A.