SEA POWER TODAY
DANGERS OF JAPANESE INTERVENTION.
A danger that impresses LieutenantCommander Kenneth Edwards, as he shows yi his book “Uneasy Oceans." is the intervention of Japan on the side of Germany. Britain is equal, he believes, to a war at sea against Germany and Italy combined, but not if Japan joined our enemies. Not until naval re-armament has made further progress shall Britain be equal to victory in three theatres of war. including the Far East, simultaneously. This danger period, he writes, may be tided over by the pre-occupation of Japan with the war in China and by the British policy of playing for time. The danger period would, however, cease to exist if the United States of America made it clear that in the event of world war her resources of supply would be placed at the disposal of the democracies, while she would resist by force any expansion by Japan in the Pacific,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 6
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156SEA POWER TODAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1939, Page 6
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