JAPAN’S DILEMMA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24697, 28 August 1941, Page 7

JAPAN’S DILEMMA

CANNOT TURN BACK COMMITTED TO POLICIES CABINET RANKS DIVIDED NEW YORK, Aug. 26. Mr Hallett Abend, for 14 years the New York Times correspondent in the Far East, writing in the magazine Look, under the caption, “We Will Fight Japan Soon,” says: “Japan is threatened with revolution at home and ridicule abroad. Japan must gamble her people’s whole future on one more war. There are men in Washington who continue to hope that Tokio will see the error of its way in time to conciliate England and America and keep the peace, but it is already too late. Japan cannot reverse her policies.” , A Tokio message states that Count Ishii stated that Japan would welcome negotiations with the United States to ease the tension in the Far East, “if we can come to a reasonable conclusion.” In Batavia Mr Vanmook said the Dutch Indies do not intend further to aid the Japanese war machine with raw materials. Exports to Japan were not extensive, thus the decrease in trade would not be serious to the Indies. He added that it would be necessary to establish a central buying organisation for the purchase ,of certain essential Japanese goods, but since the Indies were building up a manufacturing industry, . such purchases would eventually cease. There are indications of a bitter struggle within the Konoye Cabinet, reports the Tokio correspondent of the United Press. Observers believe that a showdown is approaching. The army wants action but the navy prefers caution, desiring a final effort to remove major differences between Japan and Britain and Japan and the United States. Cabinet Discusses Broadcast

The Tokio correspondent of the New York Times says the Japanese Cabinet discussed Mr Churchill’s broadcast, some passages in, which created hot resentment in array circles, which explains the vehemence of thfe press attacks against the speech. , , A message from Tokio states that the Japan Times and Advertiser urged Britain and the United States to renounce past errors and act in future on the basis of an eight-point programme, such as access to resources, free exchange of trade and a co-prosperity sphere and freedom of intercourse between Far Eastern nations..

The Associated Press says: “The fact that the Government is also debating Japan’s opportunity is reflected in a Domei Agency report that Cabinet exchanged free and frank views on the international situation.” Meanwhile the American Ambassador, Mr Joseph Grew, has had a number of unreported talks with the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Toypda. - ! The United . Press representative in Tokio says a source close to the Foreign Office has described the appointment of a United States Military Mission to aid Chungking as an unfriendly act to Japan and inconsistent if the United States wants a diplomatic adjustment, as indicated by Mr Churchill.

CHINA’S FEARS “MIGHT BE BETRAYED “ , CHUNGKING, . (Rec. 11 p.m.) Aug. 26. Fears that China might be betrayed by the present JapaneseAmerican conversations, which he termed unwarranted, were expressed by Mr Quo Tai-chi, in an interview with the United Press. He said that China had long since ceased to be the mere object of other Powers’ foreign policy and had become active again in the world’s dsplomatic stage. She contributed a vital share in the development of the present international situation, and intended to contribute a share to post-war reconstruction. He pointed out that a final settlement in the Pacific could not be reached without China’s agreement and collaboration. China had no intention of being sacrificed.