Thursday, 13 March

It is only natural for Mr. Winston Churchill and the British House of Commons to welcome the U.S.A. Lend-Lease Act, and term it a Magna Carta for rights and laws, which is the duty of free men and nations everywhere to share the responsibility and burden of enforcing them.

The Jap Foreign Minister Matsuoka Yōsuke started for Berlin yesterday as invited by Hitler. According to news from Berlin, “all questions concerned with the Three-Power Pact will be examined.” But more likely Matsuoka Yōsuke’s mission will either be making excuses to Berlin for not being able to start a campaign against America, or to obtain material help from her allies.