The Archive · 1938

New: Japanese Envoy to

To Take Post Soon

Aims to Explain Policy on Asiatic Continent to President Roosevelt; Journals Comment on Changes -HE Japanese Government is Tokyo, Nov. 11. reported to have decided to ex-podite the departure for Washington of Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Ambassador-designate to the United States, in an attempt to readjust relations between the two countries..

Mr. Horinouchi is stated to have abandoned his projected month-long tour of Manchoukuo and China, and will instead leave Tokyo for Washington on November 28 "carrying with him important instructions."

These, it is forecast, are to convey to President Roosevelt "the real intentions of Japan concerning the establishment of peace in East Asia."

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