The message to Tokyo is unequivocal about this, saying the “Germans are desperately doing all they can to [to get us to attack Siberia and] drag Japan into the German-Soviet war.” Meanwhile, Oshima’s office in Berlin tells Tokyo that a German circular communiqué sent to all embassies and consulates, the transmission of which to Shanghai was intercepted by the Japanese, instructs the German diplomatic community around the world to “make [the] greatest possible propaganda use” of the alleged “free hand in Europe that the Anglo-Saxons have granted the Soviets.”
