Evening star., 1941-12-04
Japan S Privy Council
Discusses Crisis at
2z.Hour Meetinq
Reports From Premier
And Foreign Minister
Heard in DetuiI
Ey the Associated Press.

TOXIC, Dec 4-The American
Japanese negotiations at Washing
ton were discussed in a two-and-a-
half-hour session today of the Privy
Council, highest advisory organ of
the empire, to which Premier Gen.
Hideki TOTO and Foreign Minister
Shigenorl Togo reported in detail.
active opinions were exchanged
by the privy councillors and the
premier and foreign minister" said
Domei's account of the session.
The Privy Council is consulted by
the Emperor in all major crises in
Japan's international relations.
A pessimistic view of the Washing
ton parleyS was expressed by the
foreign minister at another meet
ing.
Unprecedented Crisis.
The refusal of the United States,
Britain and their associates to 'un-
derstand Japans program for East
Asia has carried Japan to an unpre-
cedented crisis, he told the opening
of three-day East Asia Economic
Conference.
Negotiations with French Indo-
China for full cooperation" be-
tween Japan and that Vichy loyal
colony will open shortly. the news
paper Yomiurl reported.
IN, Nrocpaotiyo lie
the japanese envoy, Kenkichi Yo-
shizawa. and Admiral Jean Decoux.
Governor General of Indo-China,
it was believed that Japan would
try to purchase the colony's entire
rubber production.
The newspaper Asahi found It
evident" that the United States
was becoming more and more un-
disguised IN her hostile activities
against Japan"
I'VE cannot help entertaining
doubt of the sense of international
morality on the part of the United
States" ASahi said, citing a report
circulated in Japan of an attempt"
by Brig. Gen. John Magruder to
southwestern armies"
Emergency in Philippines.
Asahi also listed the declaration
of an emergency in the Philippines,
while the British bolstered. their
Singapore armies and fleet. Malaga
border detachments and Hong Kong
garrison.
Asahi concluded that for these
reasons Thailand's neutrality Is in
deadly danger"
In Singapore qualified OBJ
servers declared that Japanese
military preparations in South
east Asia had switched from an
offensive to a defensive charac-
ter and attributed this to an in
creasing Japanese hesitation to
take any aggressive action which
might mean war with Britain,
the United States and the Meth
erlands Indies.
The japanese were said to
have developed anti-air attack
defenses in Southern Indo-China
and sent fighter planes to the
inundated islands in the Pacific.
where they would help form a
defense ringD
Nichi Nichi reiterated the frequent
charge that British propagandists
were trying to ALLEVIATE Thailand
from Japan, perhaps to seek for
Britain IAN opportunity to invade
Thailand."
Papers Show Surprise.
Summarizing the Toxic press re- !
action to Secretary of State Hulls /.
statement yesterday indicating an
gap between the atti- |
tudes of the Washington and Toxic !
Domei said the papers |.
showed shocked surprise and ex-
treme pessimism' over the future of
negotiations.
Togo told the economic confer
enCe that Anglo American and
other countries are hampering
Japan's attempts to create the new
order in East Asia which aims at
permanent peace and !
for all"
1t is significant in the present !
Togo said. that repre-
sentatives of Japan. Manchukuo and
occupied China should get to- |
gether to discuss and decide meas
ures to strengthen their common
prosperity sphere"
Called Spur to Powers.
Finance Minister Okinobu Kaya. .
in another address. said that United
States British economic measures
against Japan and the Manchukuo
and Marking governments instead
of discouraging the powers con-
cerned, have served to spur them
or to establish a solid economic
front in East Asia
The Toxic newspapers carried pic
tures of Mr.. Hull, and Kokumin a
cariCature of the Secretary. Nichi
Nichi headlined its Washington dis
patch, Hull ISLANDERS japanese for
elgn policy; reveals United States
lnsincere regarding Japanese Amer /
iCan negotiations. Asahi declared. .
United States attempts to shift re-
sponsibility."
Domei added: The newspapers
saw no hope that the United States
would drop 'unrealstic principles.
Despite gloomy dispatches from
japanese correspondents in WASH
ington the Toxic stock market re-
manned steady, most Of today's clos
ing prices being a shade higher than
yesterdays.