TRIUMPH CLAIMED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20000, 27 July 1939, Page 5

TRIUMPH CLAIMED

NEW TECHNIQUE DIPLOMACY BY TIRADE NEW ORDER IN ASIA METHODS OF JAPAN GLEEFUL BERLIN PRESS (Eloc. Tel. Copyright—United Pross Assn.) (British Official Wireless.l Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, July 2G. The Daily Telega-aph in an editorial says that .the Japanese demand for recognition of their de facto power in certain areas in China and of their military 'efforts to extend that power is fully 'covered in an agreed formula.

“On the other hand there is no indication in the formula that the policy hitherto pursued in the face of violent Japanese criticism by the British Government is in any Way abandoned," continues the .■editorial. ■ “Claims, have been made in Tokio that a resounding triumph ha's been scored for the new order in Asia, and the Berlin press has gleefully emphasised the supposed humiliation of Britain. These are unfortunate but inevitable examples of the new technique of diplomacy by tirade overlapping sober negotiations.

“From the Japanese press and spokesmen of the army, it appears that various suggestions have been put forward in the negotiations which would certainly be unacceptable to Britain. The abandonment of 'the Chinese currency, the withdrawal, of the British Ambassador to China, the stoppage of supplies sent through Burma, 'and recognition of the puppet administration, are among the proposals which some of Japan’s military politicians .seem to have wished the Jap'anese Foreign Minister, Mr. H. Arita, to import into the negotiations on Tientsin.

“From the statement by the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, that the forthcoming discussions will be confined to local issues at Tientsin it m’ay toe assumed that, if such schemes have been brought forward, they have been dropped and will not be revived.”