The Archive · 1934

No Recognition

He added that the attitude of the Government towards the question of the recognition of Manchoukuo continued to be governed by the principles embodied in the resolution adopted by the Assembly of the League of Nations on February 24, 1933, Mr. P. J. H. Hannen, Conservative member for the Moseley division of Birmingham, asked if it were not

mission had been of distinct advantage fact that the work of the industrial to British trade.

Sir John Simon replied: "Yes, but it is just as well to keep commerce policy apart"

British and Japanese goodwill had been further cemented by the tour of the British Industrial Mission, declared Sir Charles Seligman, a member of the mission and a director of the bonking firm of Seligman Brothers, fon his arrival at Vancouver to-day' on his way to England, He said he believed that they had accomplished heir purpose. None of them mentioned polities during their visit. 'Their irengthen the friendship between Britain and Japan and to increase' trade.

Lord Barnby, head of the Mission, has stopped at Honolulu and will return to England, via San Francisco. "Reuter.

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