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Parent Tactics Used by Germans to Urge Japan Into War Bared in Note Written by Oshima News Article
Date
Language English
Collection C.W.J. Phelps Collection
Box Box 2
Folder Second Phelps Scrap Book
Repository University of Virginia Law Library
Tactics Used by Germans to Urge Japan Into War Bared in Note Written by Oshima By Earnest Hoberecht Tokyo (UP) – Germany urged Japan in November, 1941 to get in the war and get in on the spoils, and at the same time warned the Japanese that any delay in attacking the United States would only permit the Americans to gain strength for a joint attack with Great Britain against Japan. Japanese Ambassador to Germany, Hiroshi Oshima, sent this information to Tokyo in a secret message which is now in Allied hands and which may be introduced as evidence in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, it was learned exclusively by the United Press. Oshima, now on trial as a war criminal suspect, told his government he had held a conversation with Germany Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, and Ribbentrop had said, “It is essential that Japan effect the New Order in East Asia without losing this opportunity.” Oshima said Ribbentrop pledged that Germany would sign no se