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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 5

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u.s. attitudFtTjapan STAND BY MR. CORDELL HULL BASELESS RUMOURS DENIED London, Aug. 11. ; In Washington, the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, at a Press conference, disposed of a report that the United States had offered a settlement to Japan j involving certain concessions if | Japan would withdraw front the i Axis. He described Ihe rumour ■ as “baseless.” Mr. Hull said that any settlcImcnt of American-Japanese diffii culties would have to be based on ■ the principles which the United I States had enunciated for years. Washington. Aug. 11. On the question of whether the existing dangers warranted extension of the term of service in the American Army, the U.S. Secretary of State. Mr. Cordell Hull, states that a readling of lhe newspaper headlines should (emphasise the reality of the warnj mgs. Pressmen pointed out that somemembers of Congress appeared utterly unaware of these dangers. Mr. Hull said that that was what seemed to be the matter with the country. One reporter suggested that he, and other leaders, should go before the country and use a few “cusswords. ’ Mr. Hull replied that one of the many criticisms directed against him was that he had used too many “cusswords.”- -U.P.A.