Washington, Apr. 20.
President Roosevelt is not planning an early appeal for peace to Japan, State Department quarters indicated today.
Referring to a report in the Tokyo "Asahi Shimbun," one oficial said that "as far as we know this report has no official foundation in fact." The report alleged Japan would soon receive from Mr. Roosevelt a message similar to those sent to Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini A Foreign Offise spokesman in Tokyo described the "Asahi" report as a matser merely of "journalistic imagina-fon."
President Roosevelt yesterday conferred with the Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Hu Shih. They discussed the situation in the Orient in what Dr. Hu described as a "purely social" conference. The Ambassador said President Roosevelt discredited the Tokyo report that he would ask Japan to pledge herself to peace and participate in international conferences for the distribution of raw materials and limitation of armaments—United Press.
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