The Archive · 1936

Soviet Group's Accusation

Aug. 19.

The Soviet representatives. to-day said they" were "surprised that the Tapanese admit having different diplomatic policies in different parts of the world, The USSR. has no polley except one of peace." Tt has Already signed eleven non-aggression pads with foreign nations and has offered a similar pact to Japan."

'Japan's position with reference to' Communism, the Soviet group asserted, was "strange." Commun-sin, the Russians added, "is not an exportable product; it can be produced only internally."

The Soviet group also declare "The Soviet Union has never been and is not now considering war with Japan as fatalistically " inevitable. There are_no Intolerable contradic tions between the two mations. The veal danger to peace lies in. the trends of the ideas which the Japanese have expressed. We reward trade relations with Japan as parti ularly promising, owing to the stability of Japan."

The Soviet Union, the delegates continued, does not expect any Com= munistie overthrow of Japan. "It convinced of the possibility of the peaceful ce-existence of both the capitalistic and the Soviet system," they concluded.

The Japanese delegates in turn declared, "Japan intends to. sottse all disputes without resorting farms, IL ly convinced of the sity of developing new machinery really capable of preserving pence." United Press.

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