Mr, Koki Hirota Explains Further in Diet Tokyo, Feb. 5.
In a reply regarding Germany's attitude toward Manchoukuo, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota. declared at a Diet committee meeting on Friday that Germany was withholding recognition of Manchoukuo "because of various complicated relations between Germany and China.
Therefore, he said, there was difference between Italian and Ce man friendship toward Japan.
Mr. Hirota said Germany was con sidering the recognition of Manchou-ko "separately from the collapse of the Chiang Kai-shek administration." As a result, it might possibly take definite form with new developments in the situation, he declared.
He predicted that not only Germany but other foreign Powers would recognize Manchoukuo "when the new regime in China has been firmly established by winning the confidence of the Chinese nation."—
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