JAPANESE SYMPATHY
. • TOKIo", 4th July. Admiral K*to (Premier), in welcoming Mr. Denby, the United States Secretary of the Navy, said: "We/are not only willing, but anxious to maintain and constantly develop an unbroken frieadV ship between Japan and^ the United States. . We ought to Toe able, in cooperation with the leading nations of the world, to maintain far,into the future the peace that now rests on the seas, and if we succeed in this it must follow that peace on the land will generally b» preserved." Mr. Denby expressed America's in: debtedness for the great work Japan did at the Washington Conference, and the earnest hope and belief that the relative strength of the Japanese . and American navies would remain the subject of academical discussion and never a practical question to be settled at the cannon's mouth.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 5, 6 July 1922, Page 7
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