JAPAN AND CHINA
LORD LOTHIAN’S COMMENT FOREIGN SPOKESMAN’S REPLY. fir “UTTERLY ABSURD.” United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, February 28. . Alleging that Japan was endeavouring to estrange China from Western influence and form an alliance to preserve Asia for the Asiatics and end the “open door" in China, the Foreign Office spokesman at Tokyo has made statements describing as “entirely absurd” the baseless reports telegraphed to London that Japan was trying to persuade China to withdraw from the League, dismiss her foreign advisers, and participate in the formation of an Asiatic bloc in return for Japanese financial assistance. The spokesman adds that Japan desires friendly relations, and asks, “Why should we impair amicable intercourse by such forceful persuasions?" Referring to the Marquess of Lothian's advocacy of the mobilisation of the Nine Power signatories, the spokesman says: “We cannot avoid. Hie suspicion that the critics desire to disturb Far Eastern peace or that they are endeavouring to estrange China and Japan.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19515, 2 March 1935, Page 7
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