Chapter 374 – The Third Award

A short while after Tsuji Masanobu departed for Moscow, the Soviet Union joined the League of Nations.

This was the result of a shift in Soviet foreign policy, as well as the impact of the Nazi regime’s rise to power in Germany. There was also little doubt that the United States’ decision, only a short time earlier, to finally establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union had played a role.

On the other hand, Germany had withdrawn from the League of Nations about a year earlier, so from an international perspective, it was more or less a case of one country replacing another.

However, choosing to cooperate with the Soviet Union rather than regard it as an enemy was a negative development from the standpoint of Japan’s national defense.

After all, the foundation of Japan’s foreign policy was anti-communism, pursued primarily in cooperation