President Roosevelt's note of protest 10 Japan to-day emphasized the avity of the situation resulting, from he bombing and sinking of the USS. Bana' on Sunday because it marked the frst time the President had pernally intervened in the crisis tu the Indirectly, however. Mr. Roosevelt had informed the Nine-Power Con: ference at Brussels that the United Stfox would not be forced into in-valvement in the Sino-Japanese hostilities through invocation of the Nentrality Act.
Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of Stale. presented the Japanese Am= bbaseador, Mr. Hiroshi Saito, with the protest which President Roosevelt personally dictated and handed to Mr. Hoi in the form of a memorandum.
Mr, Hull's face was rave. The Japanese Ambassador was also
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