Show New Japan-Axis Agreement Fails to Frighten the U. S. Washington Continues Giving All Possible Aid to Britain Despite Axis Threat The new Japanese-Italian-Ger-man axis agreement did not come as a complete surprise to experts in this by he same the president's embargo against shipments of scrap to Nippon was hardly The vast weight of American public opinion is known to favor a strong Iy pro-Chinese and anti-Japanese The embargo would probably have been effected some lime but a few dissenters in the stale department delayed It may be that the San Francisco speech of Wendell in which he pledged himself to help China and to oppose Japan's empire building was also a It was apparently a coincidence that these two events should have taken place within the same In one it is a good thing they did coming they served to clear the air and put Japanese-American relations on a more realistic There Is no more pretense here of regarding Japan as a friendly we regard her as a potential enemy of American And now the question what are likely to be the results of the scrap embargo and the axis military The embargo is without doubt a hard blow to Japan's We have provided her in the past some 90 per cent of the metals she must have to keep her vast military establishment going and She has no oilier possible source of an adequate supply now her totalitarian Germany and haven't for their own to say nothing of It Is the American hope totally lacking as she will be from now on in essential her military activity will gradually bog And there arc other steps we can take if this one docs not prove sufficiently We for refuse to admit Japanese silk into this and that single act deprive Nippon oi her biggest and most profitable foreign Aimed at S. The new axis agreement docs not mention the United States by But it is obviously aimed at us as fascist spokesmen have exultantly The meaning of the agreement is crystal If we should join England in war against Germany and Japan is pledged to immediately attack thus making it for us to keep our fleet in the Pacific and away from European on the other if we should go to war with the other axis partners arc bound to help the Land of the Rising Sun with economic and military at their These are strong but some feel that there is considerable bluff behind At the present time we are helping England with everything we We could hardly do more if we wore actually at But Japanese which are government controlled and have said that she does not regard such American aid to Britain as the destroyer as a belligerent In other despite the obvious anger of her military certainly hasn't shown an eagerness to And if she did go to war with n would obviously be Impossible for her to get significant aid from her allies so long as England is fighting on and the military experts here are coming to the conclusion that England's position is stronger Russian Unanswered question so far is what effects this new pact will have on Russian and that may turn out to be the most important question Unofficial Soviet spokesmen were For the differences be tween Russia and Japan are completely irreconcilable so far as anyone can see and Russia has favored China in the Far Eastern Some experts are hazarding the guess that this pact may negate the German-Soviet pact of last If that should Germany would have far more than she has She would be confronted with the possibility of another enemy and an j enemy which is potentially even though it is badly If the axis friends thought the new agreement would throw a scare into this resulting in our reverting to a more neutral they were greatly Washington's response was if the agreement would result in giving even more aid to And thai policy will go on no matter who wins in November both Roosevelt and Willkie are strongly pio-English and So one result of the pact may be to benefit England in her war with two of the pact's throe Next thing to watch for now L what Spain The axis is using every pressure to enlist her as their but with a war-weary nation on his is still |