Tokyo, Nov. 21.
-APAN intends to issue a further statement explaining certain portions of the reply to the American note, the Foreign Office spokesman told foreign press correspondents today.
In particular the forthcoming statement will explain more exactly that portion of the reply which stated that "any attempt to apply to conditions of today and tomorrow inapplicable ideas and principles of the past neither would contribute toward the establishment of real peace in East Asia, nor solve immediate issues."
Most observers here interpreted this portion of the reply as an me direst rejection of the principles of the Open Door and of the Nine Power Pact, Mr. Joseph Clark Grew, American Aribassador to Japan, made an official tall on the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr, Hachiro Arita, at 3.30 this after-understood that during the conversation Mr, Arita amplified cer-{ain portions of the Japanese reply to the American note of October 0. No details of the conversations were divulyed.—United Press.
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