Washington, Mar. 4.
Commenting on the Japanese proposal to eliminate battleships and aircraft carriers from the fleets of the major Powers, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, to-day indicated the opposition of the United States to such a plan by remarking that American policy in such matters was already well known.
Mr. Hull suid the United States had received no communication from Japan on the subject, however, and therefore declined to make further comment.
Regarding the statement before the Japanese Diet by Mr. Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Minister, declaring that Japan had undertaken to improve relations with the United States through the exchange of Notes, Mr. Hull said that many Notes had been exchanged in recent months various of Japanese-He said he did not know whether Mr. Hirota was referring to any specific note—nue Press.
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