AIMS OF JAPAN
NEW ORDER IN ASIA ALOOF FROM BLOCS ANTI-COM INTERN PACT STRENGTHEN I NT! DESIR ED (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Reed. March 30. 1.50 p.m.) TOKIO. March 23. Japan belongs neither to the totalitarian nor to the democratic blocs, tlie Japanese Prime Minister, Baron Iliramima. told the Japanese press to-day. Japan did not wish to antagonise either. He went on to hint at a strengthening of the anti-Comintern pact, adding that the relations with England and America also needed readjustment. Japan was ready to co-operate with anyone supporting her plan for a new order in Asia. Japan was resolved to become self-supporting.
la an earlier statement’ the spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Officedeclared that although Japan wai negotiating to strengthen the antiComintern pact she definitely was not joining an alliance against the democracies.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19900, 30 March 1939, Page 6
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