Germany And Japan

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 3

Germany And Japan

( “There was concluded some tims j ago," said Mr. Arita, Japanese Foreign | Minister, “a Japanese-German agreei me, R tor safeguarding ugaiust the ! Communist International (the CominI tern].” “Germany,” said Ilerr Hitler last j February, “has done much in collaboration with other countries and is not to be considered as economicallv or politically isolated. I have tried since I took office to create the best possible relations with the majority of the Powers. With one single country alone we have not entered into relationship. That State is Soviet Russia. “We see in Bolshevism, more now than before, the incarnation of human destructive forces. We do not blame the Russian people us such for this gruesome ideology of destruction. We know it is a small Jewish intellectual group which hag Jed a great nation into the position of madness. “If this doctrine would confine itself territorially to Russia maybe one could put up with it. Alas. Jewish international Bolshevism attempts to hollow out the nation* of 'he world from its Soviet centre. . . “From this arises our relationship with Japan. I cannot agree with thoi-e politicians who believe they are doing the Eurof»ean world a service by harming Japan. I believe that a Japanese defeat in tlie Ear East would never be of any good to Europe or to the United JSlates, but would exclusively benefit Bolshevik Soviet Russia. . , . “Germany has a treaty with Japan to combat Comintern aspirations. No matter when and how events in the Far East find their final solution, Germany will always consider and value Japan as an element of security iu its stand against Communism and* in its assurance of human culture. For us there is no doubt that even the greatest Japanese victory would not in the slightest degree endanger the culture of the white races, likewise we ttr« convinced that a possible victory of Bolshevism would simply mean the end of the 1000 year-old culture of ths white races.”