MATSUOKA IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 13

MATSUOKA IN AMERICA

CHAMPIONING CAUSE

IGNORANCE, FOE OF PEACE

iTRUTH ABOUT MANCHUKUO'

United Press Association—By Electric T«l«i

grapli—Copyright. (Received March 25, 10 a.m.)'

NEW YORK, March 24.

Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, head of the Japanese delegation to the League of Nations, arrived here with five fellow delegates on Friday. He asserted that Japan was "not appealing to anyone, for it is not a vassal State to America or any other nation." He also suggested that Japanese and American feeling might be improved if the United States would withdraw its fleet from the Pacific. He did not know whether or not Japan intended to withdraw from the League, but h« declared that Japan had no intention of relinquishing the mandated islands in the Pacific, whether or not it remained in the League. ' . Later discussing the Manchurian situation Mr. Matsuoka said:."lt w always very hard and very difficult for people such as the Americans, five thousand miles from the scene, to understand the actual conditions?' In his opinion the greatest enemy to peace was ignorance and lack of understanding: For that reason Japan hoped to have the happenings in Manchuria understood by the world. . • , '

.. A crowd of Chinese were in. tha street outside the pier as the Leviathan, docked to protest against what they, said was Mr. Matsnoka's intention to engage in a campaign of • propaganda ! while in America. A police guard of a hundred and fifty uniformed men. and detectives was assigned to the dock" to prevent possible disorder.

One Chinese, lon. Nap Hin, a stud* ent, was held for questioning aftei! the police found he had a revolver. H« displayed a permit to carry the weapor