"It is earnestly to be hoped that the powers, by recognizing the new conditions prevailing in China and by appreciating the propriety of such Japanese demands, for neces-ary and rational adjustments, as have been submitted, or may be submitted hereafter, in order to meet those conditions, will cooperate for the establishment of a new order ju the Far East.
As regards our relations with Manchoukuo, it is the fundamental principle of our national policy to help that country to achieve healthy progress as an independent state, maintaining all the while its intimate ana inseparable relationship with our own.
"Ili accordance with this basic principle, our government decided upon the abolition of extraterritoriality long enjoyed by Japan, and the transfer of her administrative rights in the South Manchuria Railway zone.
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