NAVAL EXPANSION
JAPAN’S ANXIOUS WATCH
CRITICISM OF UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN. POSITION IN WESTERN PACIFIC. (Recd This Day, 10.25 a.m.) TOKIO, April 7. Mr Noda declared that it was a transparent trick for Britain and America to blame Japan for withholding plans for naval expansion. He said the defective London Treaty of 1937 was the real cause. Japan had made no change in policy, while watching developments, but was gravely concerned over America's trend to maintain the 5/5/3 ration and also over the possibility of America projecting her naval frontier into the Western Pacific, based on Mr Cordell Hull’s rejection of a proposal to retrict the fleet’s scope of operations, because the extension would encroach on an area vital to Japanese defence, but he doubted whether an actual clash would occur unless Japan were acutely menaced.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 7
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