JAPAN’S CHOICE.
COMMENT BY “TIMES” SMALL BLUNDER MAGNIFIED. LONDON, July 20. “The alternatives to compromise in North China are a full-dress war or a local military, adventure offering Japan the choice between a major and a minor disaster,” says “The Times” in a leading article. It is no exaggeration to say that if Japan went to war with China the best thing that could happen would be her prompt a.nd decisive defeat of China, which is inconceivable. “Japan has disconcerted the world and perhaps, herself, by magnifying into an international crisis a small blunder for which she at least was partly responsible, a.nd has amused the world by describing the movement of Chinese troops to defend Chinese territory as ‘provocative,’ but she has not impressed the world—even the Nazi press is taking a significantly detached view. “Britain’s sympathy with Japan’s problems will hardly be enhanced by Tokio’s flirtatious attitude toward the greatest of all problems, which is war.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 254, 7 August 1937, Page 10
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158JAPAN’S CHOICE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 254, 7 August 1937, Page 10
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