SANCTIONS AGAINST JAPAN
"Any Government which embarks on sanctions against Japan," says The Times, "must be prepared for the interpretation of such a step as a hostile act — must, in other words, be prepared to fight a war. In the second place, sanctions, if they are to be effective, require complete co-operation between the Governments who contemplate imposing them. In the third place sanctions, even if suecessfully initiated, might well — at this juncture — have the effect, not of humanising the warfare in China, far less of stopping it, but rather of driving Japan to yet more desperate lengths. She has for years been aceumulating eonsiderable reserves of war material; sanctions would face her with the necessity of ending the war_ by whatever means, before these reserves were exhaustd. Nothing is more certain than that Japan considered the possibility of sanctions before she embarked on her war of aggression; that she equipped herself as best she could against such a contingency; and that she is not at [ present amen%ble to any threat of economic pressure from outsidc."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 80, 28 December 1937, Page 6
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