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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1941;

Receives

Japan "Stop" Notice

Mr.

AMIDST THE EXCITEMENT over the Anglo-Soviet joint action in Fran, Winston Churchill's reference to the Far East is prominently displayed by the London papers.

SWEDEN

TAKES NOTE

Mr. Churchill's refer- ences to Japan are parti- cularly stressed in the Swedish newspapers.

The "Daily Mail" says: "The references to Japan constitute a 'stop' notice to ill- advised militant leaders, which gains added force in that, with the United States, we are labouring to arrive at a fair and amicable settlement which will give Japan the utmost reassurance of her future interests.

"Japan will be wise to base her, pets of Naziism and the legitimatter the last war will not be future

J[ on this promise she ate interests of Japan. If United does not, there is eltar mucation States' efforts to provide an ami- in M. Churchill's speech that ac- cabje arrangement should fail, we tun to deter her from Further acts shall put Gur not inconsiderable of aggression has been concerted power in the Far East at the side with President Roosevelt wherein; at the United States." the strength of the British Empire. wil conform to American direc- tion."

The "Manchester Guardian"

says:

Dangers Are One

The "Dagblade{" calls the- warning to Japan a noteworthy utterance and underlines the declaration that the policy of trade restrictions which followed

repeated.

that

"Dagens Nyheter" states the reference to Japan way inade "with sharpness of tone."

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There is nothing new in the speech about American aid Britain, says the "Tidningen," but it reveals that Britain and the United States are alongside the event of war with Japan.

in

The Yorkshire Post" observes The broadcast will be "America's security and our own marked in Japan to whose govern- | security in the Far East are threa- ambition of Japan. ment Mr Churchill gave a stern tened by the

The paper also stresses Mr and sharp warning. Her aggres- [This danger touches America very

that the She has an nearly. It is easier for the Ameri- | Churchill's statement sion has got to stop

be disarmed opportunity to reach a settlement, cans to appreciate it than the dan-Axis Powers will if she refuses. Britain will range

ver of Nazi aggressions in Europe. while the democracies will retain herself unhesitatingly with the Yet the two dangers are one. They their arms. United States. Japan con have spring from the same source; only

All the papers give prominence and undeviating, peace or war as she chooses.”

a resolute

the beto either

figures

Mr given by The paper remarks that Mr. common policy can

Churchill of the German losses in Churchill might, if he had chosen, crushed.”

Russia.-Reuter. have made his speech so charged

emotion, as with

to make it vehicle for appeal to the United Stutes to enter the war.

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The "Daily Telegraph" CO.n- ments: "It was alter the pact with Hitler that the Japanese militarists

toward struck south the tin and rubber of Malaya and the oil of the Dutch East Indies and threatened the rights of the United States in the Pacific. Churchill distinguished between the Japanese imitators and pup-

by

"If Japan The "Star" states: Is tempted

this to go mad at moment, Mr. Churchill's warn ing should make her think. To. day's action (in Iran) is a forer taste of what can be achieved if terday that the German Consulates

been closed. the three countries fighting for in Cuba have freedom exert strength in uni-Reuter.

fied acts of policy."

The "Evening Standard” de- clares: "The

moral Mr.

Japan And Mr. Churchill

Authoritative Japanese sources in Tokyo have re- jected Mr. Churchill's ac- cusations, saying "Who is

| menacing whom?

"Japan is not menacing any- body. Japan has not menaced anything."

Official Japanese reaction is not likely at least until the text is fully received.

It has been sketchily.

reported only

alleged depredations of the Japan-

the

50 dearly

It was announced in Berlin yes-

learned in the West is applied in United States that she will not re- East. Japan is not to be treat from responsibilities in Asin. the Such B pledge so forthrightly allowed to murder China in corner. She must half now or given should strengthen the hand confront the united enmity of the of Washington resolved to check: umbition." Central quadrilateral Powers. Britain has Japanese given a firm commitment to the News.

ADVANCE WILL OPEN UP SCOPE

FOR COOPERATION

(By Reuter's Military Commentator)

THE IMMEDIATE consequences of the British advance through Iran will ensure the

Mr. Churchill's reference close cooperation of Russia and Great Britain. ese military faction is labelled in an extension of the war front; and- one-

"just another attempt to depict a

division of Japanese opinion and which is geographically not difficult to thereby to disintegrate Japanese

unity which is wholly impossible." maintain:

Japan's actions are said to bel based upon the solid

basis of unanimous national policy.

Aliénating Thailand

With British controls stretching east- wards from Egypt, through Palestine and Syria to Iraq, it goes without saying that a Mr. Churchill's speech continuous front with the Russians will soon is designed to alienate be established in Iran and so on into the Thailand from Japan, says the "Kokumin Shim- Caucasus- a front which will support and strengthen Turkey against Nazi threats, and The early morning papers gen-Nazi aggression.

bun"

brally follow the first reaction,

일

Mr. Churchill's speech:: "is de- Moreover, behind this front will against the British Empire, void of time and sense because le secure supply lines up thehis: para-troops and air-borne. the China conflict preceded the Red Sea into Syria and Turkey, troops, have managed in other European war and therefore Ja- and up the Persian Gulf via theatres, of the war. pan cannot be imitating Hitler," Baghdad and Mosul to Turkey Their elimination, if not their the "Kokumin. Shimbun" adds. and also into the Caucasus, and extermination, was a vital neces- China reconstruction la co- Southern Russia from Basrah, slty and one which could no operative with the Indo-China Bushire and Bandarappan, through longer be delayed. These vital advance agreed freely and peace Teheran and Tabriz It Iran had lines oft supply through the Red fully by Vichy, whereas it is Bri- been left under Nazi Influence, and the Persian Gulf lead back to tain who is bearing pressure in all these supply lines: would have supplies, not only from India, South Asia, the paper claims. been endangered, and probably but also from Australia and the Omcial circles deny knowledge before very long would have East Indies, and right-bacle to

both the Americas.. of Japanese-American basic hego-been cut.. tiations which were hinted at by Mr. Churchill although ... réports from: Admiral. Nomura, Japanese Ambassador to Washington, have not been received Reuter.

In a word, direct link will soon

Vital Necessity bo established with our Russian

Nazi "tourists" and agents, who allies, and that material assistance had overrun Iran would have which the Russians require con carried the same recently.

function for now be reasonably guaranteed. - Hitler's strategy in Russia and Reuter.

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