I do not want to submit this as a document, but merely as a quotation from a published work, a book, which is here in your hands. I read from Page 311:
“This treaty granted Germany and Italy a dominant position in the new European order, and it accorded Japan a similar role in the area of eastern Asia.”
I am now skipping a sentence that has no significance.
“At first glance, one could realize that the Tripartite Pact had in mind a double purpose.”
I shall skip the following sentence which is without interest, and I go to the sentence dealing with the second purpose:
“Moreover, it entrusted the parties with a mission for the future, that is to say, the establishment of a new order in Europe and eastern Asia.
“Without seeking to lessen the importance of the first question, there can be no doubt that this second purpose, dealing with the future, involved vaster projects and was, in fact, the principal point. For the first time in an international treaty, in the Tripartite Pact, the terms ‘space’ and ‘orientation’ were used linking one with the other.”
I now go to Page 314 where the author makes a remark which appears to me to be significant:
“Now, the Tripartite Pact places a clear delimitation of the wider spaces created by nature on our globe. The concept of space, it is true, is employed explicitly only for the Far East, but it is equally applicable to Europe and that within this conception Africa is comprised. The latter is certainly politically and economically a complement, or if one wishes, an annex of Europe. Moreover, it is obvious that the Tripartite Pact fixes the limits of the two great regions or spaces reserved for the partners, that the pact tacitly recognizes the third area, that is Asia, properly speaking, and that it leaves aside the fourth, the American Continent, thus leaving the latter to its own destiny. In this way the whole surface of the globe is concerned; and an idea, which as yet has not been considered except in theory, was given the significance of a political principle derived from international law.”