Washington, Feb. 10, Senator Key Pittman, Democrat of Nevada and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to-day opened his long-promised floor attack on Japan's foreign policy, which he characterized as a threat "to the United States and contrary to the "open door" policy in China, The Senator in December delivered a scathing attack before the Las Vegas, Nev., Rotary Club, in which indirectly referred to Japan as an "international pirate." Later, taken to task for his criticism, he announced that he had been imlsquoted on several points, but would explain his attitude in detail on the floor of the Senate In his speech to-day, the Nevadan advocated strong United States naval and air forces "until the time arrives when the peace treaties are univers ally respected und obeyed." He asserted that Japan's attitude toward China had violated the Nine-Power Treaty and said that China's accept ance of Japan's three-point _programme would be a final surrender of China's sovereignty. China was still fan independent siste desiring peace with the world, She desired to trade with the United States and nothing could legally interfere with such trade, Senator Pittman sharply attacked statement appearing in a Washington newspaper on January 23, in which Vice-Admiral Sankicht Takahashi, Commander-In-Chief of the First Tapanese Fleet, was quoted as saying that the United States should confine {ts naval programme to national defence or else be prepared for the extension of the Paciile cruising radius of Japanese warships.
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