JAPAN AND AMERICA
THINLY-VEILED THREAT “ CRISIS NEVER SO ACUTE ” TOKIO, October 2. (Received October 3, at 9.40 a.m.) Mr Hoshio Mitsunaga, as president of the Nippon Press Association, telegraphed Mr Roy Howard, the American newspaper magnate, asking for guidance of the American public so that peace might be preserved in the Pacific area. “ The crisis was never so acute, and may be averted if America abandons the fortification of Pearl Harbour, Guam, and Midway, gives up support of Chiang Kaishek, and restores trade to normality. Otherwise an armed clash in inevitable in the near future,” ho said.
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Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 9
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97JAPAN AND AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 9
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