ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Axis plans for a new division of the world, and the relation of such plans to the other dimensions of the alliance. The course of military operations assured that the German-Japanese alliance would not be shattered by a fight over the spoils of war in the Indian subcontinent. The issue became of interest in the early spring of 1942 when the spectacular Japanese victories in Southeast Asia raised the possibility of a Japanese advance into the western Indian Ocean, including the acquisition of bases in Madagascar. The Germans had to concede to the Japanese that their relations with countries in Greater East Asia would in the future be conducted only in consultation with Japan. German-Japanese negotiations on territorial matters dealt almost exclusively with the status of German and European rights in Greater East Asia, or with the future of the areas which separated the German-Italian New Order from the Japanese.
