“NEW ORDER IN ASIA”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 5

“NEW ORDER IN ASIA”

9, WELL UNDERSTOOD IN UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR’S PLAIN SPEECH. JAPANESE ACTIONS RESENTED STRONGLY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright TOKIO, October 19. In a surprisingly blunt address, the United States Ambassador, Mr Grew, told an audience, including Japanese notables, that American public opinion strongly resented some of the actions of the Japanese forces in China. The position must change before relations between Japan and America could be improved. Mr Grew said the Japanese entertained several fallacies, including one that Americans misunderstood the new order in Asia. He asserted that Americans understood the new 'prder as well as the Japanese, It appeared to deprive Americans of their long-estab-lished rights in China, and the American people were opposed to this. The Japanese would be wrong if they thought they could convince Americans the present Japanese practices in China should be condoned. Mr Grew said: “It is the belief of the American Government and people that many things injurious to the United States which have been done and are being done by Japanese agencies are wholly needless. ... It is probable that many of you are not aware of the increasing extent to which the people of the United States resent the methods which Japanese armed forces are employing in China .... The The American people are profoundly shocked at the widespread use of bombing in China, not only on grounds of humanity, but as a direct menace to American lives and property . . . . The American people feel that the present trend in the Far East, if continued, will be destructive to the hopes that thiy‘sincerely cherish for the development of an orderly world.”