JAPAN AND GERMANY
ANTI-COMMUNIST PACT MINISTER'S EXPLANATION TOKIO, .Tan. 5 In the first broadcast by any Japanese Foreign Minister in support of his policy, Mr. Haehiro Arita, giving a new naino to tlie agreement between Germany and Japan, said that under the anti-Communist accord, Japan had taken a step to save China and Manchukuo from Communist penetration. Japan was not interested in Germany's political system. Those who thought Japan was joining with a Fascist group were ill-informed regarding the true nature of her Constitution. China's tendency to become Bolshcvised seriously threatened Japan, which heartily desired the Nanking Government and the Chinese nation to realise the importance of amicable relations. Japan was anxious to increase her friendship with Britain and America, and aimed also at a readjustment of diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22620, 7 January 1937, Page 10
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