Foreign correspondents asked today for comment on the recent statement made in the House of Commons by Mr. Lloyd George regard-ting Japan and the Open-Door in In reply a spokesman of the For-Jeign Office told newspapermen that Japan was more anxious than any other nation for maintaining the JOpen-Door and equal opportunity in China, which would be advan-{ageous to herself.
The spokesman regretted, however, to note the deplorable attempts. on the part of other nations to close the door of China against Japan.
He said that this was "indisputably manifested" in the decision adopted by the League of Nations Assembly on February 24, 1993, in which the Chinese boycott against Japanese merchandise subsequent to the Manchuria incident was legalized, thus closing the door of China against Japanese goods.
The spokesman added that humanlity would be happier if all countries pursued the Open-Door policy grant-jing free entry and free domicile to fallens, and making no discrimina-{tory restrictions against foreign mer-
Mr, Lloyd George in his speech in the House of Commons on November 28, said, among other things, that Japan's difficulties could not be ignored, but that she should be told that the China Sea was not a closed sea.
The Liberal leader also declared that at present owing to lack of leombined action among the powers, Japan was giving the impression, in China "that she alone counted
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