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TOKYO, Sept. 6 (UP)—Japanese quarters Saturday night took the view that the Greer incident had advanced the possibility of war between the United States and Germany and warned that the possibility of similar incidents in the Pacific “must be carefully thwarted/'The Japanese press gave great* prominence to the Greer matter.Most of the newspapers held that ? American policies had made such ' incidents inevitable.Admiral Sankichi Takahashi, former commander-in-chief of the Japanese combined fleet, held that American participation in the war was inevitable and that the day had been brought nearer by the Greer incident.Takahashi. however, warned that although it probably would be against American interest to wage a two-ocean war, the combined British and American Atlantic fleets probably could handle Germany in the Atlantic and still leave a most formidable American fleet free for service in the Pacific.The editor of Japan News-Week, sometimes an organ for foreign office views, reported Saturday that today's issue had been suppressed.He said no reason had been given for the government action but it was obviously because of the editorial contained in the magazine critically reviewing Germany's -ill-founded plans and suggesting that after another year of war victory might well be within grasp of Germany's enemies.The News-Wcck editor said that future issues of the magazine will appear as usual.Commenting on the Greer case, the newspaper Hochi said that the United States, in taking over Iceland, actually had abrogated its neutrality and that the Greer incident was tantamount to a belligerent warship being attacked within the war zone.The United States, said Hochi. actually was asserting neutralityADMIRAL TAKAHASHI • . • War Inevitablesuch attacks as that on the Greer.Such developments in the Pacific, it said must certainly be thwarted.The mass circulation Nichi Nichi said that the U. S. neutrality law already had been abrogated, in reality, and that if any further revision of the act was undertaken on a pretext of averting Britain's heavy, . - . . shipping losses it wouldand at the same time insisting on have the effect of entire repeal belligerent righta which invite 1 of the neutrality law.ML SCHEDULES AMERICAN CRAFT
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Ogden Standard Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Sun, Sep 07, 1941
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