Tokyo, Jan. 26 The Foreign Minister, Mr. Hirota, expressed his firm conviction in the Lower House yesterday that there would be "absolutely no war during my tenure of office."
He further emphasized Japan's, peaceful policy, although he aclinal ted the necessity of armament view of "the heavy armament expan-slon carried on by other Powers."
Referring to relations between Rus~ sla and Japan, Mr. Hirota said that it was most important and practical to conclude a non-fortifeation agree ment" between Manchoukuo and Soviet Russia, and, in this respect, he mentioned' the Portsmouth 'Treaty of 1905, which prohibited fortifeation along the Russo-Japanese border Saghalien, and also the border' along Korea and Russia, and which had worked most satisfactorily. two great civilizations were shining' and were trying to meet each other through the immensity of the continents. Even to-da called "The Road of the Genoese, runeing from the Black Sea to the asses of the great mountains. remains as a testimonial inscribed on the huge pages of the earth to the efforts of the Ttallans to weld the Occident with the Orient. 'This is the Scope' of the mission which T am proud to open to-day in the now capacity of Mahan Ambassador to the Republic of China, "This mission, like all other acts of the Fascist Government, draws from the past, however, for the solu-tons for the future. The collaboration between our countries comes to develop itself in an historical cycle, common to both of them, since Italy,
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