advantages of a great newspaper is its multiplicity of news services, of differing national tendencies, which enables its staff to obtain a complete picture of a situation and present it fairly to its readers. Covered from different angles the result is generally an unbiased version of events from which the reader can draw his own conclusion and form his own opinion. Is there any wonder for an editorial headache in view of these versions of happenings in the Japanese Diet on Monday:
Mr. Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Minister, told the Diet here to-day that fresh efforts were being made to promote peace talks between Japan and China. He said an "unnamed third power" was attempting to promote the peace negotiations Foreign Minister Hirota and War Minister Sugiyama both reiterated before the budget committee in the House of Representatives that Japan is determined to continue the campaign in China to a successful conclusion. Hirota declared that no peace negotiations with China were in progress. He stated that there would be no possibility of a third power intervening im future Press reports asserting that Great Britain and other Powers intended to intercede in the Sino-Japenese dispute were flatly denied in the Diet yesterday by Foreign Minister Koki Hirota There is no suggestion that there is any deliberate transformation of what appears to have been a single statement, but it is one of those peculiar incidents in a world of censorship restriction and interpretation which makes the task of the independent newspaper extremely difficult. It is a case of "You pays your money and you takes your choice."
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