Interlaken, Sept. 6.
"Interlaken's influence can and will contribute to an answer to our Far Eastern problem, in bringing back peace tothe world—I hope I may help 7 to build bridges between Great Britain and Japan, based on real friendship, and absolute unselfishness."
This statement was made by Mr, T. S. Mitsui, partner in the fame Japanese firm, at the Oxford Group World Assembly here today.
The Assembly is being held with the object of promoting international reconciliation: E Mr, Mitsui was one of the principal speakers at today's session.
Another prominent speaker, Bishop L. H. Roots, of Hankow, said: "On my way home, I passed through Japan. A high official in Tokyo said that the Sino-Japanese situation had now reached a point where neither side could take the initiative in proposing peace.
"In this ofücial's opinion," Bishop Roots declared, "the only kind of in- 7 itiative which has any hope of success is moral and spiritual."—Reuter,
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