CLIMAX NEAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 6

CLIMAX NEAR

IN FAR EASTERN CRISIS VIEW OF OBSERVERS ACTIVE NAZI CONSPIRACY IN JAPAN. DECISION EXPECTED WHEN DIET MEETS. (By Telegraph--Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 28. Far .Eastern observers believe that: peace in the Pacific hinges on the 1 outcome of five days’ .deliberations of the Japanese Diet, beginning on November 15. The Prime Minister (General Tojo) is expected to announce his policy regarding the prosecution of national affairs, particularly his attitude to America. Admiral Nomura (Ambassador to Washington) is expected to travel from Washington to explain to the Japanese Cabinet ths temper of United States public opinion, which he believes to be solidly behind President Roosevelt in his attitude to Japan. Meanwhile the German Ambassador (General Ott), assisted by a horde of Nazis in Tokio, is doing his utmost to lobby Diet members into a bellicose mood. He is also endeavouring to work up Japanese public opinion with bitter attacks in the Press against Britain and America. An analysis of available Japanese opinion shows that financial, trading and shipping interests fear war with Britain and the United States. They say that if Japan is involved m war in’ the Pacific she cannot expect help from Germany. . The United Press Shanghai correspondent says that according to reliable Japanese sources, high officers of the Japanese armies in China and Manchukuo conferred with General To] c and Navy leaders last week and discussed the extent to which the Army would be willing to evacuate China if the Japanese Government reached an understanding with the United States, or the possibility of a final great campaign in an attempt to end the China W Informed quarters suggest that Japan is trying merely to prolong the Washington negotiations until a golden opportunity arrives, either through the collapse of Russia ;or through nited States involvement in the war, when Japan would seize .Thailand. The Japanese Army is speeding up all emergency preparations, although the mcbilisation of troops appears to have halted because of lack of equipmen fcr recruits. Mr Ichiro Kiyose, leader of the Reformist faction in the House of Representatives, says the ■Japanese-United States negotiations are doomed to fail ure because America is completely blind to Japan’s dependence on South Seas fuel, minerals and raw materials. “We must not forget,” he says, ‘that Japan has a role to play at the c ose of the German-Soviet -wai. Aftei th fall of Moscow and Leningrad the Soviet undoubtedly will take to guerilla warfare. Japan should have a trump card to play at that time.