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...report threw him into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests in "open arteries of commerce." In the House of Commons, a long-standing sympathizer with China, Liberal Geoffrey Mander, complained so bitterly...
...force to undertake the defense not only of Canada and the British West Indies (which it must defend anyhow for its own self-interest) but of Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore, India and South Africa. The only satisfactory quid pro quo the U. S. could offer probably would involve going to war with Germany, for Britain would have no incentive to save her fleet unless the U. S. offered her hope of victory...
...agreement to close Indo-Chinese roads to Chinese war traffic. Two days later sensational reports appeared in the Japanese press that the French would soon "invite" Japan to "protect Indo-China against any possible attempts by the United States, Britain or the Chungking Government to interfere with the status quo...
...agreement with Australia and New Zealand, take such steps for the maintenance of the status quo in the Western Pacific as may be possible in view of our Atlantic situation...
Next the Foreign Office demanded maintenance of the status quo in French Indo-China-i.e., no one should take it but Japan, not even Japan's friends Germany and Italy. Louder & louder grew the cry among extreme nationalists in Tokyo that Japan should occupy and "protect" the territory, and thus snip both outside intervention and the China supply line...