If Nanking Government Agrees First to Direct Negotiations with Tokyo Brussels, Oct. 30.
ELIABLE unofficial circles reported to-day that Japan is willing to accept the United States as mediator in an effort to settle the Far Eastern crisis, providing that the Nanking Government agrees first to open direct negotiations with Japan. In essence, this would mean that Japan could establish its own basis for peace terms before the start of mediation.
Diplomats pointed out that, should Nanking and Tokyo open direct negotiations, a third power like the United States could act as mediator without opening the entire question of the Far East to a general settlement, as might be the case if the attempt were made by the Nine Power Conference.
It was understood here that, with Italian Envoy is
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