NINE-POWER PACT
No Direct Action By America MR. HULL’S STATEMENT Encroachment on United States Interests By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received July 18, 5.30 p.m.) . Washington, July 17. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, in a statement to the Press, without naming any country, but obviously directed to China and Japan, said that war' in the Far East was impossible without encroaching on American and other interests. It was understood earlier in the day that the Chinese Ambassador had requested the United States to invoke the Nine-Power Treaty against Japan. Mr. Hull reiterated the traditional American foreign policy and concluded: “We avoid entering alliances or entangling commitments, but. we believe in co-operative effort by peaceful means.” The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says it is not believed that the United States will take direct action on the Chinese appeal under the Nine-Power Treaty at present.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 250, 19 July 1937, Page 9
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146NINE-POWER PACT Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 250, 19 July 1937, Page 9
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