JAPANESE ALLEGATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 7

JAPANESE ALLEGATION

AMERICA NEARER "WAR. (Ree. 9.20 a.m.) TOKIO, April 29 The ..newspaper Kokumin Sliimbun declared to-day: "The United States'* decision to extend her patrol from the Atlantic waters to the Western Hemisphere means 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 that concern is felt on the market that the United States is bracing to take a catastrophic plunge into the European war, and this has caused a wholesale fall in stocks. 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 President Roosevelt’s shoulders at this critical hour.” The usually temperate newspaper Asalii 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 letting loose American patrols on all the seas of the world lor convoying United States transports carrying war materials to Britain.” It should be noted that the TimesAdvertiser’s comment on the New York stock market is inaccurate. Since the Balkan defeat the general tendency lpis boon for prices to move irregularly upwards.