AMERICA AND JAPAN
CHINESE PAPER’S OPINION WAR CONSIDERED INEVITABLE CHUNGKING. Oct. 7. The influential newspaper Ta Kung Pao said: “ The United States should realise that a JapaneseAmerican war is inevitable, for which reason the United States should strike first before Japan consolidates herself in Indo-China, forms a military alliance with Thailand, and makes a drive against the Burma road. The United States should declare a complete economic blockade of Japan, and immediately utilise Singapore and Australian naval and air bases, because in this lies the only hope possible of averting war, or at least assuring a shorter war.”
The Ta Kung Pao added: “A Japanese-American war would be like a fight between a lion and a rabbit in view of American superiority. Such a war would result in the execution of international brigands.” According to a message from Tokio, when he was asked if any concrete outline of a basis for the readjustment of relations between Japan and the United States had been established in Tokio or Washington, Mr K. Suma, the Foreign Office spokesman, replied: “There is no room for a basis of readjustment in the current situation, especially since the United States insists upon the solution of all pending questions first.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24424, 9 October 1940, Page 7
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