JAPANESE ATTITUDE TO DEMOCRACIES
NO PART IN HOSTILE ALLIANCE TOKYO, March 29. A spokesman of the Foreign Office said that although Japan was negotiating to strengthen the Anti-Comintern Pact Japan was definitely not joining an alliance against the democracies. “Japan belongs to neither the totalitarian nor the democratic bloc,” the Prime Minister (Baron Hiranuma) told the Japanese Press. She did not wish to antagonize either. Baron Hiranuma hinted' at the strengthening of the Anti-Comintern Pact, adding that the relations with Britain and America also needed readjustment. Japan was ready to cooperate with anyone supporting her plan for a new order in Asia. Japan was resolved to become self-support-ing.
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Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 7
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108JAPANESE ATTITUDE TO DEMOCRACIES Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 7
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