The Archive · 1937

Former Spokesman Speaks

San Francisco, July 29 Mr, Eiji Amau, former spokesman for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrived here to-day en route to Switzerland to assume the post of Minister there. The visitor, whose hands off China toment several years ago earned him international renown, said to-day that his recent visit to central and North China had revealed conditions strikingly similar to those of 1£27 and 1929, character ized by an "intense anti-foreign attitude. China, he said, apparently without justification, sufficiently powerful to "čhánge all existing treaties, China is not, however powerful enough yet to do such a thing.". The former spokesman s: that Japan merely demand: ton as the stabilizing force in E Asia, and wants China to "observe treaties."—United Press,

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

Your account