ACTION BY POWERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 250, 21 October 1937, Page 7

ACTION BY POWERS

FAR EAST PROBLEM UNITED STATES ATTITUDE A PEACEABLE SOLUTION (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received Oct. 20, 9.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. A message from Hyde Park says that President Roosevelt made a formal statement following charges by Senator Johnson (California) that the President’s Chicago address was leading the United States tov, ard a dangerous foreign policy through an advance agreement with Britain. The statement reiterated that the Nine-Power Conference would seek a peaceable means of solution and went on to stress that the United States enters the conference without any commitments to other Governments. The former Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, in a statement said that tr.e Japanese policy in China was irreconcilable with the letter and spirit of the Pact of Paris. lie issued a warning against international anarchy. JAPAN INDECIDED TOKIO, Oct. 19. At a meeting of all parties at the Speaker’s house no decision was reached regarding Japan's attendance at the Brussels Conference. The Asahi suggests that Japan will participate only if the sole purpose is to study the true cause of the unrest in the East and to devise a remedy.