Addressing Extraordinary Diet Session Mr, Hirota Outlines North China and World Policies Tokyo, July 27.
EVIEWING Japan s foreign relations, which he described as fraught with difficulties and problems, Mr. Koki Hirota, Foreign Minister, to-day told an extraordinary session of the Diet that the settlement of the North China Incident "depends entirely" upon what course China will choose to follow.
"There exists," he admitted, "a danger of an untoward outbreak at any moment." In view of this situation, Mr.
Hirota emphasized, the Government is prepared to use "all available means consonant with the development of the situation" io protect Japanese nationals in China Japan's policy in East Asia, the Foreign Minister declared, is "directed solely toward a realization of stability in East Asia, through conciliation and ce-operation between Japan, Manchoukuo and Chu and topping the Communist invasion of the Orient."
Regarding the Lukouchiao incident, Mr. Hirota asserted that the Japanese Government had maintained "a policy of seeking a settlement on the spot and a non-aggravation of the situa-cording] the Foreign Minister continued, "the Government has been doing its best to effect a "peaceful solution on the spot, and, at the same time, Induce the Nanking Government to take proper steps for an early settlement of the question.
"It is my earnest hope that a prompt reconsideration on the part of ihe Chinese authorities will lead to a faithful execution of the terms of the settlement, arrived at on the night of July 11." Mr, Hirota stated.
"In surveying the conditions in present-day China," he went on, "our ov ment cannot but profoundly gret to note that the anti-Japanese sentiments have been encouraged and systematically exploited for unifying public opinion and arousing Nationalist consciousness and that untoward incidents, evidently resulting th from, are taking place in various quarters in China."
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