In the course of his message to {the Japanese nation broadcast from jon board the N.¥-K. s. Asama Mara in which he returned home, Mr. Matsuoka made critical references to Lord Lytton.
The attitude of Lord Lytton caused him particular regret said, Son of a Viceroy of India, Lord Lytton was born in the official residence of the Viceroy and grew jup to be an official in India An Englishman brought yp in such an Jenvironment lacks the sense of treating Asiatics on an equal foot-jing with Westerners, and it was in Ino carping mood that he said this, declared" Mr, Matsuoka, but hastened to' add that might ave acquired the _same mentality as Lord Lytton had he been brought up in the same environment. At any rate, there is doubt that he has the mental habit of looking down upon Japanese Jas he does upon Indians, and his Jattitude was that of a superior at-[tempting to settle a quarrel between two inferiors. If anybody doubts that, said Mr. Matsuoka, that person would be blind to the relations between mental development and en-
Lord Lytton wished to make a cit coe cat Sart ata cal tsuoka's part to preclude his speech. a eonrta ies aay orage ten Broadcasting Station just before League Assembly adopted the diatribes against Japan, and, Mr. Matsuoka added, he must be de-
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