PACT WITH AXIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1940, Page 6

PACT WITH AXIS

DIRECTED AGAINST AMERICA ADMISSION IN JAPANESE PRESS. CONCILIATORY TONE TAKEN TOWARDS SOVIET. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) TOKIO, September 29. A frank admission that the new pact is directed against America is made by the Press, despite official disclaimers. The “Asahi Shimbun” stresses the fact that the pact foreshadows a new era of improved relations between Japan and Russia, as two of the most important Powers “in the new Asiatic order.” The paper adds that Japan, Germany and Italy regard the Soviet as a new-ly-risen Power, capable of co-operation in the establishment of a new world order. A special clause concerning Russia has an important significance for Japan’s future diplomacy towards the Soviet. The “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” takes the opportunity to fulminate against Britain as well as America, characterising Britain as “the greatest cause of mankind’s unhappiness —a monstei’ stretching its claws to the vital parts of the world for the last several centuries.”