Tokyo, July 1
Joint Anglo-French representations "pposing Japanese military operations against Hainan Island would ce stitute "intimidatory interference which should be regarded as "an extremely unfriendly act," the Meirinkai, an association of "retired civil and military Government officials, declared in a resolution made public today.
Copies of the resolution: were sent o the Premier, Prince Ayamaro Konoye, Gen. Kazushige Ugaki, the Foreign Minister; Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, the Navy Minister, and Lieut,- Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, the War Minister.
An emergency meeting of the ecutive committee of the Meirinks was called by Gen. Kunishige Tanaka, its president, yesterday to discuss the question arising from the statement made in the House of Commons recently by Mr. R, A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding a joint Anglo-French demarche in Tokyo.
Said Mr, Butler: "The British and French Governments, through their ambassadors in Tokyo, have made it clear to the Japanese Government hat they regard any occupation of an Island by Japanese forces as calculated to give rise to undesirable complications."
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