The Archive · 1937

Japanese Aspirations

Rome, Dec. 27.

Because of the recent visits to Italy of Baron Okura and other distinguished Japanese personalities, the Italian Government has decided to send to Japan a mission of "study and friendship," composed of "representatives of all forces of the regime."

In commenting on this decision to day, Signor Virginia Gayda, editor of the "Giornale d'Italia," Signor Mussolinis—mouth supports Japan's claims to build up her naval strength to the level of the British and American navies.

Attacks against the British policy in Palestine and the Far East again make their appearance in the Italian newspapers after the Christmas pause.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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