Turning to American-Japanese re-Intions, Gon, Ugaki recognized tt sentiment in the United States had been stimulated against Japan as the result of the events in Chino.
'Japanese feeling against America, aroused to fever pitch by the discriminatory immigration legislation of 1024, had' improved, the Foreign Minister said.
"There has been no change in the! friendly sentiments of Japan towards "America," Gen, Ugaki stated expressing the hope that America would come to "understand the pre-valling state of affairs in a correct Japan's naval policy, based on the principles of non-menace and non aggression, was unchanged, the Foreign Minister asserted, The Japanese Picot he declared was sume lent for defence but insumelent for aggres~ sive purposes.
Japan, he continued, hag. felt no menace' from abroad "so far", bul] inay be compelled to review' her policy if actually threatened.
Referring to the internal situation n Japan, the Foreign Minister insisted that he felt that the present stitutional parliamentary structure! was "best sulted" to the country.
The Government, he continued, did not intend to invoke all the provi sions of the National Mobilization Act, but "even should they be enforced" because of future developments, the "constitutional system! Would prevail in the nation.
'The National Mobilization Act, the Foreign Minister went on, had' not been enacted against any specific country, nor was it necessitated by the seriousness of the hostilities in China or the threat from the Soviets. was a' precautionary measure against the possible outbreak of serious emergency.—Domel.
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