The Archive · 1925

Viscount Ishii's Position

Tokyo, Sept. 14.

A-Geneva despatch dated Septem-her 12 reports that at she Assembly of the League of Nations, with roference to the Peace Protoc: count Ishii, the Japanese delegate, issued a statement to the following After careful consideration as to the Peace Protocol, the Japanese Government has realized that the Protocol in question cannot obtain unanimous recognition from the Powers concerned, and therefore does not insist that the same should be put in force at ence.

It is the opinion' of the Japanese Government that it would rather be advisable first to enter into an agreement among several neigh: bouring countries in a most concilintory spirit and on the basis of their special state of affairs through some particular method in addition to a general one, and then to increase the number of such sorts of agreements by degrees, thereby loading to the realization of a general alliance Jamong all the nations. By so doing, the enforcement of such agreements 3

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