MOTIVE OF JAPAN'S AGGRESSION
Bress Assooiation-
"Asia for Asiatics" Policy in • Grim Earnest BRITISH PREOCCUPATION IN WEST
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(tteceived 1, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, A"ug. 31. X North American Newspaper Alliance copyright message says t&ai Sir Arthur ^Willert, Press Officer and head of the New Departfiient of the Foreign Oj0o.ce, considers Japan is making a colossal bid for the entire subjugation of China, which will disastrously affect English and foreign interests. This will, if successful, mean the launching in grim earnest of Japan 's "Asia for the Asiatics" policy, involying a great attack by militarist upon democratic conntries. "Britain," says Sir Arthur, "cannot at present risk armed itrength in the West in order forcibly to support her protests in the East. "The change in the balance of power in the Pacific really arose When Sir John Simon failed to adopt Mr. Stimson's (United States Secretary of State) suggestion for a strong British and American istand to protect China when Japan began to dismember her in 1932." '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 5
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