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Memorandum by the
Secretary of State Regarding a Conversation With the Canadian Minister (Marler)
[Extract]
[WASHINGTON,] September 21, 1938.
I then stated that since August a year ago I
have proceeded here on the theory that Japan definitely contemplates securing
domination over as many hundreds of millions of people as possible in eastern
Asia and gradually extending her control through the Pacific islands to the
Dutch East Indies and elsewhere, thereby dominating in practical effect that
one-half of the world; and that she is seeking this objective by any and every
kind of means; that at the same time I have gone on the theory that Germany is
equally bent on becoming the dominating colossus of continental Europe.
C [ORDELL] H [ULL]
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