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ACTION BY BRITAIN BURMA ROAD OPENING EFFECT ON PEACE AIM MORE TALK OF PACT (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Oct. 11. 2.40 p.m.) TOKIO, Oct. 10. “The decision by Britain to reopen the Burma road will have the effect of encouraging Marshal Chiang KaiShek,” said the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, m Tokio to-day. “It is beyond my comprehension how the British Government could hope to contribute to a realisation of the restoration of peace in East Asia by such methods as reopening the Burma road.” Referring to the pact between Japan, Germany and Italy, he said: “Frankly, the signatories to the pact earnestly wished that such a powerful nation as the United States, as well as other nations at present neutral, would not be involved in the European war, or by any chance brought into conflict with Japan owing to the China incident or otherwise. Such an eventuality, with the possibility of bringing an awful catastrophe upon humanity, is enough to make one shudder if one stops to irnagme the consequences.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20376, 12 October 1940, Page 11
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