Observers here also regarded the statement issued in Nanking on Saturday by Mr. Tang Leong-li, head of the Nanking International Publicity Board, as another indication that japan' is not prepared to support any immediate action which might further antagonize the United States in China.
Mr. Tang said that although China intends to open peaceful negotiations with the Powers concerned effort fo obtain the return of foreign concessions and the abolition of extraterritoriality, the Nanking Government does not contemplate any "direct action" in this matter at present.
Tu Washington, it was recalled, the Under Secretary of State, ' Mr. Welles, told the press last weel that the United States would always be glad and anxious to improve its, re-Tations with any country, provided American policies toward other: countries made this possible.
'Some quarters interpreted Mr. Welles' statement as an. indication that the United States would consider cooperation with Japan in the Pacific Japan complied with the policy of the United States in recognizing the 'Chungking Government and by' seeking an equitable peace settlement with" Generalissimo Chiang Kalshek,
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