ANGER IN JAPAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 6

ANGER IN JAPAN

RISING STEADILY AGAINST AMERICA TALK OF RAPPROCHEMENT WITH RUSSIA. ARMY AND OTHER OPINIONS DIVIDED. ~y Te'ni’raph—Press Asvoc.atio.i—Copyright (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) " NEW YORK, November 3. A message from the Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Times” states that while the Japanese are hurrying preparations for Mr Wang Ching-wei’s installation/general Japanese indignation against America is steadily mounting despite occasional appeasing statements oy Tokio statesmen. High Japanese military figures in China declare that: ‘♦America is driving us into the arms of Russia through her refusal to recognise the new order in East Asia.” Obviously it is hoped that the dangers of a Russo-Japanese rapprochement will cause the United States to modify her stand. Japan’s Army leaders are insistent that they would prefer to meet Russia halfway instead of appeasing America. Only the naval and diplomatic classes prefer friendship with the democracies, if it is obtainable, since they are without delusions that Russia would long permit Japan to retain her planned hold on China.