The Archive · 1938

Third Power Rights to Be Respected 3

Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu's views on war with Britain and on the' necessity of freeing the coloured races from white yoke are his own private beliefs and do not represent the opinions held by the Government, a spokesman of the Gaimusho told foreign correspondority to-day.

The Admiral's views, the official said, were expressed in an. interview with a representative of the "Keizo," a leading monthly, before he was appointed Minister of the Interior on December 12.

The original text of Admiral Suetsugu's interview. appearing in the. magazine, "does not indicate in any: way Japan's attitude or policy towards the driving of Whites out Asia," the spokesman pointed out.

"What was emphasized by Admiral Suetsugu in that article was that white dominance over the this ship to-day.

Joining in the Administration's drive against Big Business, Mr. Dodd said he had spent 4% years in Europe in the hope of serving the: United States:

"But how much one could do,"

Mr. Dodd said, "is an open question, The world learned nothing from the Great War. The logical outcome of present war preparations is another war—and what would 1 leave of modern civilization?"

Mr. Dodd said industrialists "defeated world peace efforts at Geneva more than once because they thought the sale of war materials more important than world peace. Other groups insisted on trade barriers, making impossible the payment of debts by some nations."

"In a vast region where religious freedom is denied" he aid in referring to his service in Europe, "and where intellectual initiative.|and discovery are not allowed and where race-haters are being culted daily, what can a repr sentative of the United States do'

Mr. Dodd resigned as Ambassador Germany after Congressional leaders opposed to President Roosevelt's judiciary reform programme had demanded his recall as a result of a letter he wrote to several Senators regarding the possibility of dictatorship in the United States.

In his letter, Mr. Dodd had warned against the dangers of dictatorship and said he had been informed "a certain person" in the United States was ready to give $1,000,000,000 to support the establishment of a dictatorship in America—United Press.

Siste: sending others flowers were:

Neville; Rosalind, Marie and Karl: Vi, Martha, Sammy and Jose: Ca; The Worshipful ster, rs and Brethren of Amity Lodge No. 106, F. and AM.: President and Committee of The Anzac Society hal; The American Machine i, Philippine Company E Dep't, Andersen, Meyer & Ca. G. T. Fulford Pharmacal en, Meyer Ca. Ltd.; Members of Chinese Staff.

The Management, coloured races needs modification, so that real peace can be secured among the peoples of the world," he added.

The Admiral's reference to the aid extended to China by Great Britain and Soviet Russia should not be interpreted as "challenging" to these powers, the officials explained.

Admiral! Suetsugu, he went on merely wanted to stress. the importance of putting an end to the sources of China's supplies of arms.

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