Tokyo, Mar. 31.
In declaring that the United States Government would not recognize the National Government of China in Nanking, Mr. Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State, "appears to have contradicted" the terms of the American note to Japan of December 30, 1938, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, director of the Bureau of Information of the Foreign Office, declared here today.
The American communication, he said, had assured Japan that Washington was not reluctant to take into consideration actual developments. Mr. Suma qualified his remarks by remarking that he had not been officially informed of the veracity of the statement attributed to Mr. Hull by press dispatches. "However, it may be said that it reflects, as we have repeatedly said in the past, the negligence displayed by the United States in realizing the realities of the situation," he added.—Domei,
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