JAPAN'S CHARGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24127, 20 November 1941, Page 9

JAPAN'S CHARGES

CALM RECEPTION AMERICAN REACTION OPINIONS IN BRITAIN LONDON, Nov. If) The charges made in the Japanese Diet against America have been received calmly although with some amazement in the United States. Mr. Kurusu is described as an envoy carrying an olive branch lined with brickbats The Japanese resolution is interpreted by one commentator as a demand for the United States to reverse completely its own policy while leaving Japan to continue its policy. "If Mr. Kurusu can turn that resolution into a peaceful statement," says the commentator, "he is more than a statesman—lie is a magician." "If war in the Pacific is the price of resisting Japanese rampage, then war must come," said Senator Pepper, who is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "If the Japanese want peace let them stop their aggression now arid get out of China." The New York Times says: "After a substantial discount is made for the fact that the Prime Minister, General Tojo, spoke for home consumption to a war-weary and disillusioned people, it is impossible to escape the conclusion that the Japanese terms are nonsense. No Japanese Premier can possibly expect the United States to reverse its traditional policy of the past and make its policy for the future at the behest of Nippon." The well-informed American journal Foreign Correspondence considers that the sending of a United States force to China would meet with little opposition at home. Three hundred American pilots o: e said to be training Chinese airmen in China, and 80 sailings of ships with supplies for China are scheduled between now and next May. The London Daily Telegraph states that the resolution of the Japanese Diet conveys the impression that Japan is not only ready for war with the United States but is determined to have it. The Daily Herald considers that the question of peace or war in the Pacific depends less on the talks going on in Washington than on the struggle going on in Tokio promoted by German fifth columnists. It says the crisis will go on until the battle in Tokio is decided.