Full understanding of this point the part of the United States was essential, he said, to reach a solution of the trade treaty question between Japan and America. The countries should approach the question calmly and ce-operatively, he stated.
Mr, Arita hoped that zn early settlement of the Asama Maru case would be effected.
London, Feb. 2.
King George VI was suffering from a slight cold yesterday and was confined to the Chinese suite on the second floor of Buckingham Palace, it was disclosed today.
Buckingham Palace officials emphasized that the cold was very slight and that the King was staying in his room purely as a precautionary measure. They expected the King to resume his normal duties within the next day or two.
The King, they pointed out, has well sustained the arduous duties of wartime and has, on the whole; been in excellent health despite the recent cold spell. The last time that illness kept His Majesty it doors was in July, 1938, at the Royal Lodge at Windsor.
The staff at Buckingham Palace will be under medical observation for the next fortnight as a result of the fact that the Queen's Lady. Waiting, Mrs. Geoffrey developed mumps, it was today. The ailment is comparatively slight, but because it is contagious the staff was placed under observation—United Press.
Economic interpellations were answered by the Finance Minister, Mr. Yukio Sakurauchi, and the Ministers of Communications, Commerce and Industry, and Public Welfare.
The Finance Minister was confident that ext years budget would be successfully carried out on the strengtà of the material mobilization plan.
The Government was determined, he said, to guarantee stabilization of national welfare while exercising rigid economy itself in order to prevent harmful inflation.—Domel,
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