ther to ask Japan to make contact with the conference to convey what conditions she would lay down for the cessation of hostilities. China was not represented owing to the nature of the discussion but any proposals decided will afterwards be submitted to the full-conference.
M. Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, met M. Yvon Delbos, the French Foreign Minister, this morning, and will later lunch with Mr. Norman Davis, the chief American delegate.
Japanese quarters late last night affirmed that they had received instructions in advance to reject any fresh overtures to take part in any way in the conference but this will not necessarily prevent an attempt being made, because no channel of conciliation will be neglected in these preliminary stages.
It is rumoured in the lobbies that the conference may attempt to induce Great Britain and the United States to undertake mediation, but there are no ground for assuming that either would accept such an invidious task, or that it would be entertained by the Japanese if the proposal was made.
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