The Archive · 1938

Viscount Ishii Says Britons Keep Cool

Japan Relations May Be — Improved by Compromise

Moji, Apr. 22.

Admission that British ntiments towards Japan are "not as friendly as was expected" was made today by Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, Japanese goodwill envoy to London, as he passed through here en route to Tokyo.

Britons opposed to Japan, however, he pointed out, are those with big business interests in China.

Viscount Ishii, who once served as Foreign Minister, declared that Britain apparently wants ce-operation not only with Italy, but with Japan as well. The only way to break the Anglo-Japanese deadlock, he said, lies in mutual concessions and conciliation in the disposition of their political and economic interests in China.—Domei.

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