Japan Faces Greatest Crisis

Northern Advocate, 5 September 1941, Page 2

Japan Faces Greatest Crisis

LONDON. September 4. A New York message says wellinformed quarters in Washington believe that America and Japan are on the brink of war. Whether they will fight appears to depend in the first place on the capacity of America to lift her arms production to such a peak that Japan will quail before it, and in the second place, having regard to the internal struggle now racking Japan, whether she will fight the democracies or settle her differences with them by peaceful negotiation. The conversations between Japan and America continue in Washington in an atmosphere of tension. Both Mr Cordell Hull and Admiral Nomura still hope for a limited understanding, but it is feared that the Army in Japan may repudiate any concessions Admiral Nomura makes and then take over the Government and begin a reign of terror. The “New York Times” says: “Japan faces the greatest crisis in her history. Her trade is smashed and her armies are bogged and encircled. II Japan quits the Axis we can still reach an understanding, but we are no longer willing to buy her off,”