JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 132, 6 May 1941, Page 5

JAPAN'S FOREIGN POLICY

LONDON. May 4. The Tokio newspaper Asahi Slumbun predicts that Japan's foreign policy/ will become brisk after the return o the Foreign Minister (Mr Matsuoka) to-morrow from the Grand Shrine of the Sun Goddess at Ise. He Jolt yesterday by train to visit the shrine in order to "report" on the returns of his European trip. The Asahi said that Japans only remaining question was the attitude to be taken toward the United States, which had "come to show serious concern about Japan's southward policy. How this country will proceed in this respect undoubtedly depends on the future development of the international situation." Discarding the suggestion that he should go to the United States (where he was formerly Ambassador), Mr Matsuoka asserted that it would be far more appropriate for President Roosevelt or Mr Cordell Hull to come to Tokio to learn the actual conditions existing in the Orient. It is officially announced that the Franco-Japanese economic talks regarding lndo-China have been amicably concluded and an agreement will be signed on Tuesday. Tho agreement is described as having the widest .scope and comprises, firstly, a general agreement and. secondly, tariff and trade payments, thirdly, navigation and residence rights. A Bangkok message says Hiat with the signing of the peace treaty between France and Thailand some time this week the Premier (Mr Songgram) has dissolved the Thai High Command which was formed on the outbreak of border hostilities.