The Nome Nugget

FASCISTS HINT AT JAPANESE MOVE SOON TO COUNTERACT AMERICA'S BRITISH AID BILL

"America Has Spoken, Japan Will Say Its Word"

UNDATED, March 11 (P)--The propaganda guns of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance boomed in concert against the United States as Japan's Foreign Minister Matsuoka prepared to leave the Far East for important talks with Hitler and Mussolini.

A high British naval source declared that Britain already has enough trained personnel to man the whole United States fleet if it were turned over to the British.

The current of "the Battle of the Atlantic" so far however, is such that the British have not officially suggested that United States naval assistance is needed to combat Hitler's sea raiders.

In Washington, yesterday, British Ambassador Halifax discounted reports that the two countries will exchange naval vessels as a part of the British aid program.

A Japanese newspaper asserted that the United States planned to send U. S. destroyers in exchange for British capital ships for use in Far Eastern waters against Japan. Lord Halifax said he did not consider such an exchange likely now, or in the future.

Fascist sources in Rome hinted at an impending Japanese move under the triple alliance in reaction to the United States' British aid bill.

The Italian newspaper La Tribuna declared bluntly that Matsuoka's trip is the "immediate answer to Washington's threatening move yesterday. America has spoken. Japan will say its word and it is for this that Matsuoka is coming to Berlin and Rome."