“Ostracise Japan,” Is U.S. Senator’s Suggestion
WASHINGTON. January 3.
Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, proposed that the United States should “ostracise” Japan if she continues her actions against which the State Department has protested. He declared that he could not conceive a declaration of war by Japan due to any moral sanctions the United States might impose in the interests of international justice. ”The Japanese statesmen arc too intelligent to declare war,” declared Mr Pittman. “First, such a declaration would bo absurd. They know that we knew they do not intend to cross the Pacific to attack us. “Such a declaration would do them no good and us no harm. ’
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Northern Advocate, 4 January 1939, Page 5
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