London, Jan. 13. prem would visit Washing-the invitation of President t. He will arrive here early The Diplomatic Correspondent of the "Sunday Times" understands that the British Note presented to Japan yesterday "lays down in firm language" firmer perhaps than any Great Britain has used since the war in China began—the British attitude to the policy deliberately pursued by Japan in closing China to all trade with the Western world, equally Italian and German, as well as British and American trade. t's invitation for the nce was extended to Dr. "through the President yr. Getulio Vargas. The con-jas regarded here as one of f the Pan-American Confer-'Lima, Peru, last month.
The result, the correspondent goes on, is to align British policy with that enunciated by the United States in her Note of October 27.
The British Note, he adds, is in no ay identical with the American Note, but the principles animating the two are the same.
There is no passage in the British communication, the correspondent emphasises, that can be interpreted as a threat of retaliatory action. Nevertheless, he says, it would be a mistake to rule out entirely the possibility of such action, which has been the subject of a departmental survey, although nothing so drastic appears to be contemplated in the immediate future.
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