New York, Oct. 19.
The United States will enter the Nine-Power Conference "without commitments on the part of this government to other governments," declared President Roosevelt in a statement to-day, issued after a long conference with Mr. Norman Davis, head of the American delegation to Brussels. It is regarded as an answer to Senator Hiram W. Johnson, who, speaking in San Francisco earlier in the day, said Mr. Davis would not be going to Brussels until an advance programme had been agreed upon between Britain and America, The President declared that the purpose of the Conference would be to seek, by agreement, a solution of the present situation in China.
"In Our efforts to find that solution, he added, "it is our purpose to ce-operate with other signatories of the Treaty, including China and Japan."
The American delegation is to leave on Wednesday by the s. Washington.—Reuter.
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