As soit as the Cabinet gives its approval to the plan of policy to be followed by the Japanese delegates at the conversations, Imperial sanction will be sought Only when this is obtained, will the Foreign Office be able to com-
'Yesterday afternoon's conference was attended by Mr. She Kurihara, director of the East Asiatic Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Office; Mr. Yutaka Tsuchida, chief of the First Section, and Mi, Arata' Sugihars lehlef of the Second Section of the same Bureau; Mr, Solomatsu. Kato, minister-at-large; Mr. Hikozo Tanak: senior consul in Tientsin; Major-Gen. Akira Muto; Col. Saburo Kawamura, both from Tientsl Kazumoto Machijiri, director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the War Office and his aides.
Following the adjournment of the Jconterence, the Foreign and War Omce representatives respectively reported the results of their deliberations to Mr. Arita and to Lieut.-Gen. [Seishiro Magaki, War Minis Mr. Sugihara and Col. -Kawahai however, remained closeted for an additional "hour "discussing. technical Britain's Attitude Analysed Three reasons for Britain's reluct-
Jance to act against Japan over the Tientsin dispute were cited by the London correspondent of the Tokyo "Nichi-Nichi" chain of newspapers today in a lengthy dispatch, analysing British sentiment towards based on interviews with Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, other British Government leaders, as well as outstanding ancial "and journalistic figures and foreign diplomats in London.
"These reasons were:
1. The realization by the British Government that it would be folly to challenge Japan's strong political position in the Far East; The fact that the European situation does not permit Britain to to war in the Far East; '2., The difficulty of resorting to effective retaliation.
British recognition of Japan's ace tual power and resources, the correspondent said, was still in "em-[bryonic form", But general anti-Japanese and pro-Chiang Kal-shek sentiment was gradually losing out.
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