NEW OBSTACLES
EXCHANGE OF DIPLOMATS
(1.5 p.mA WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. Negotiations for an exchange of diplomats between the United States and Japan, which have dragged op for nearly three months, have encountered new obstacles. . Although the precedent demands that diplomats in enemy countries must be repatriated, the Japanese are desirous of sending some diplomats to new posts directly' from the United States, to which the United States Government will not assent. At the same time the Japanese are refusing to release American marines taken prisoner at Peking and Shanghai alter the outbreak of the war. The United States contends that the Japanese had no right to seize American marines in the legation cpiarter at Pekin" and the International Settlement of Shanghai.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 98, 25 March 1942, Page 6
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121NEW OBSTACLES Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 98, 25 March 1942, Page 6
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