The Archive · 1940

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London, Apr. 22.

Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, the "Japanese Sumner Welles," arrived here today and will remain in London for a month.

A former Gaimusho spokesman, Mr. Kawai is making a tour of various capitals in Europe and America. In a press interview today, he said:

"I am establishing a closer contact between the Japanese Foreign Office and our diplomats, and so I have had the opportunity of meeting a large number of prominent people and seeing and hearing many points of view.

"I have been able to gather a general impression of the situation, I must stress that my trip has no special motive behind it."

Mr. Kawai has already visited North America, Italy and France, He intends to pass through Belgium, Holland, Germany, the Balkan states, and Soviet Russia, He is expected to return to England before he goes back to Japan—Havas.

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