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...Nomura's mission as hopeless. Said Tokyo's Miyako: "The United States is disturbing our gigantic task of constructing a new East Asia." Said Hochi: "Sending an Ambassador to Washington is like ordering a man on horseback to charge a wall." Said the Army's mouthpiece, Kokumin: "The appointment is our last card...
Undisguised Challenge. "Relations between the two countries have become so acute that . . . almost every issue between them is charged with the danger of war," said the Tokyo newspaper Kokumin last week. Kokumin is no irresponsible sheet, but the Army's newspaper as Prince Konoye is the Army's Premier. "This dangerous and gloomy situation," Kokumin added, "is all of American making...
...Japanese do not like it and even take offense at the transfer of U. S. destroyers to Britain. "It is not difficult to see what the United States is aiming at," said Kokumin. "By leasing the British bases in the Atlantic, the United States is foreshadowing its future advance in the Pacific. . . . It is now believed that it will extend its grip on Singapore and The Netherlands Indies by speeding up the expansion of bases on Guam, Midway and other Pacific possessions. It is only natural that the Japanese Navy, with its policy of non-menace and nonaggression, should...
This was far more than Japan had hoped for when she asked other powers if they would respect the status quo of the East Indies (TIME, May 20). The Nationalist "Southward Ho" Party's newspaper Kokumin promptly hailed it as a "blank power of attorney" for Japan in the Pacific, muttered that the transfer of the Dutch Government to England had already altered the status quo. Even slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, bulky, bluff Yakichiro Suma, who speaks with authority for the Foreign Office, told the country in a radio speech that Japan's policy of non-involvement...
...Japanese begun howling about them. Not so long ago any statesman with the gall to criticize the Government as openly as Diet members have in the last month (TIME, Feb. 12) would have been obliged to commit honorable suicide. Newspapers have suddenly begun speaking out of turn. Said nationalistic Kokumin...