Japan, the spokesman declared, respects the rights of third Powers ande has often reiterated this stand.
The Admiral, the official pointed out, did not say that he wanted to Gght Great Britain, nor did he prediet a clash with that country.
Any misunderstanding regarding Admiral Suetsugu's interview would be, dispelled, in the spokesman's if ihe entire text of his talk in the Japanese original is "read carefully and in its true meaning."
The Talk Justice and humanity will come to an end unless the world, "now dominated by whites, reconstructed, Admiral Suetsugu, once known as the Navy's "stormy petrel," told the press on Wednesday.
"My personal conviction is" the new ter declared, "that lasting peace of the world cannot be realized unless the coloured race, now lead-a miserable life under the shackles of white domination, is delivered.
"H China should depend solely on the alleged British assistance in declaring her intention to prosecute protracted hostilities, I believe it Wwodld be inevitable for Japan to stop the fountainhead of China's resistance, even at the "risk of a clash with. Britain."—Domei.
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