of Gentlemen's Washington, Feb. 2.
The report that Mr. Koki Hirota, the Japanese Foreign Minister, admitted in the Diet to-day. that a state of war existed between China and Japan, has aroused an expression of the opinion by some Congressmen, that Neutrality Act should be enforced.
Questioned at a press conference, Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State, said that he would have to await official confirmation of Mr.
Hirota's statement before he could Giscuss the matter.
Whether the Administration decided to change its policy or not, however, it is reliably learned that the effective Japanese blockade in China has done much to disabuse high Circles here of the notion that invocation of the Act would amount to discrimination against China—Reuter.
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