JAPAN -GREAT BRITAIN: Formula

JAPAN-GREAT BRITAIN

Great Britain, said Prime Minister Seville Chamberlain last week, would never submit to threats and change its Far Eastern policy at Japan's bidding. When the British and Japanese negotiators got down to real work at Tokyo last week however, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita insisted in discussions with Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, that Britain admit she had sinned against Japan and promise in the future to recognize "the necessity" of Japan's operations in China. He threatened to break off negotiations unless Sir Robert first signed a general formula to...

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