The Archive · 1937

Tokyo Press Scoff

AT BRUSSELS — Italian Delegate's Stand Highly Commended

Tokyo, Nov. 6.

The Japanese press to-day dismisses the Brussels Conference with the comment that it is quite natural that it lacks courage to oppose Japan "so long as impure motives guide the policies of anti-Japanese nations" The conference, it is added. "is an example of the spirit of discord characterizing European polities."

Count Marescotti, the Italian delegate at the conference, is praised for his speech at the opening session.

The Count, says the "Asahi Shimbun." injected fresh air into ihe conference and warm apprecias expressed for Count Mares-"sympathetic understanding position. conspicuous for its absence in the addresses of Great Britain, America and France."

The delegates of these three countries, the "Asahi Shimbun" adds. "fail to understand the current Far Eastern situation simply because of their indifference to or ignorance of the real internal causes of the Sino-Japanese conflict."

The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" declares that Count Marescotti suggested a line of action that should be followed by other delegates when he emphasized that only the parties to the conflict were in a position to eliminate the true cause of the dispute—Reuter,

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