Washington, Aug. 24.
United States sent Tokyo a firm note two weeks ago warning Japan against her present course in East Asia, it was reported here last night, The State Department declined to comment on these reports but. the retiring Japanese Ambassador to Washington, Mr. Kensuke. Horinouchi, revealed that Japan h lad received a recent communica~ tion from the State Department. This note was America's reply to Japan's protest against the Americ: an oil and scrap iron embargo.
American officials declined to confirm or deny reports that Mr, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, in an aide memoirs to Mr. Horinouel i, reviewed at length all outstanding problems between the United States and Japan, The aide memoirs was reported 10 have included special comment on the situation of American nationals in China and the condition of American trade with China, Questions on China In Commons Reviewing all the outstanding issues still unsettled between Tokyo and Washington, the note was reported to have warned Japan that the United States has not forgotten these cases and that a day of reckoning sometime must come, Observers here recalled that Mr. Horinouchi conferred with the Acting Secretary of State, Mfr. Sumner Welles, on August 9. "Informed quar~ ters said that Mr. Welles at that time might have made Mr. Hull's attitude Known to INF. Horinouchi, Earlier, Japan protested, vigorously against the embargo President Roose velt had declared against the shipment of aviation petrol and scrap iron to foreign countries, including Japan.
The United States, it was believed, may have used its reply to the Japanese protest as an opportunity for reaffirming America's stern attitude toward aggressor nations,
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