INTIMATION TO TOKIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 5

INTIMATION TO TOKIO

AMERICAN DEFENCE LINES IN PACIFIC

DETERMINED BY POLICIES OF OTHER NATIONS.

ABSENCE OF SATISACTORY GUARANTEE.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i NEW YORK. January 30. The Assistant Secretary of Slate, Mr. Sumner Welles, in a speech said there was no similarity between the Monroe Doctrine and Japan’s new order of economic hegemony in East Asia.

"It is grimly humorous to learn that the United States is accused by the official Japanese spokesman of pursuing an aggressive policy in the Far East because she has placed a line of defence in the western -Pacific. The United States’ lines of defence are determined solely by the cast of the policies of other nations. The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of self-defence, not aggression.”

Mr. Welles said a German victory would be followed by Axis attempts to secure a commercial and financial stranglehold on Latin America and later by a military invasion. "While there is no satisfactory guarantee of stability and peace in the Pacific, the United States Navy remains based in the Pacific,” he added, "control of the Atlantic by a friendly Power being essential to United States security.” WAR MATERIALS PROPOSED BAN ON EXPORTS TO JAPAN. WASHINGTON, January 30. in the House of Representatives, Mr. Coffee introduced a Bill to prohibit the export of war materials to Japan.