WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
U.S. DELEGATES' CONSTRUCTION ACCEPTED.
(SPECIAL TO AUSTRALIAN-N.Z. PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
(Received December 22, 9 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, 20th December. The White House issued the following statement to-night : "When the President was responding to press inquiries to-dfey, he expressed the opinion that the homeland of Japan did not come within the words 'insular possessions and dominions' in the Four-Party Agreement. This expression has been emphasised as a division between the President and the delegation. The President announced to-night that the difference in view would in no wise be permitted to embarrass the Conference or the ratification of the agreement. He assumed all along that the spirit of the Conference contemplates that confidence, which pledges respect to territory in every way which tends to promote lasting peace. He has learned from the United States delegates that they have agreed to- the construction which includes the homeland of Japan in the term 'insular possessions' and dominions,' and 'has no objection to that construction.'"
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 150, 22 December 1921, Page 7
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161WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 150, 22 December 1921, Page 7
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