NEW PROPOSALS MADE.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 9

NEW PROPOSALS MADE.

# JAPANESE ATTITUDE MODERATES. 4 BRIGHTER OUTLQOK. TOWARDS ACCEPTING | t DRAFT RESOLUTION. 1 t _ v ivnsfv rRESB ASSOCIATION'-87 BLECTRiO V ' TELEOttAJ'U COPYRIGHT.) t (Received February S, 0.50 p.m.) * GENEVA, February S. jfr Y. Matsuoku, Japanese delegate ' «t Geneva. submitted importivnt now proposals which, it is understood, go far accepting the draft resolution sad will bo carefully considered by tlie Lfgguo Council's Committee of Nino- j l®ea. The prospects seem to have provedIt is stated that the Committee of Nineteen has reached agrepnicnt on the main points of the drfift report, which ii to be submitted to the League As»«nbly and that these include:— (1) The recommendations must be based on the 10 principles of chapter tf of the Lytton Report. (2) There emerges inevitably from the first of these principles the faet 1 that it is impossible to recoguise the j existing regime in Manchukuo. j (3) In order to give effept to the non-recognition of there _ must be unanimity of action. * It is recognised as important that the of non-member States 1 having an obvious interest in the pre- i ient state of affairs in the Far East be | secured. ... Having determined the principles upon which the report is to be drafted ifae Committee of Nineteen lias appointed a Drafting Committee, which is meeting this morning i?t Geneva. It js anticipated that the complete report i wil! be ready at the end of next week. < Meanwhile the Japanese delegation at , (icriev-a has received fresh instructions front Tokyo. These may load to re- | newed efforts to bring about a settle- , meut of the Japanese dispute with China by conciliation. Until the report, which is being drafted in accordance with paragraph four of article la of the league Covenant, is actually presented 10 the Assembly, the door to conciliation is still open.