Viscount- Glenda, the Japanese Ambassador, speaking in London, on Friday
week, made a telling expOsure of the German elan to
embroil.America and. Japan. Germans in America had, he said, tried for years to persuade the American public that Japan wee the enemy to be feared. The Germans at home believed so implicitly in Japan's bad faith that at the outset of the war a crowd assembled outside the Japanese Embassy in Berlin to cheer Japan for her supposed intention to betray her British Ally. Even now, Viscount Chinda said, fantastic rumours were being set afloat concerning an alleged secret German-Japanese treaty, by which Japan undertook to invade America as soon as the American Army had been despatched to Europe. Fortunately, as- Viscount Chinda pointed-out, America's entry into the war has put an end to these German manoeuvres on the other side of the Atlantic, and the recent Japanese Mission to America has been a brilliant success. It must be added that the difficulties which have in the past arisen between Japan and America were purely local. Washington remained calm even when Cali- fornia was most agitated about Japanese immigration.
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