The Archive · 1938

STIMSON DOCTRINE UPHELD IN AMERICA

Washington, Feb. 14.

America's, policy not to recognize the acquisition of territories won by conquest, such as Manchoukuo, was reiterated here to-day in connection with suggestions in American press despatches that the terms o! settlement of" Anglo-Itali ences might entail British recognition of Taly's Ethiopian Empire.

American observers in Washington declare that the recognition of Ethiopia by Great Britain at present would almost certainly embarrass the United States.

Such action, they add, would play into the hands.of those newspapers and Congressmen who are condemning, cas the Anglo-dangerous, American consultation already existing in regard to the Far East—Reuter,

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