Washington, Apr. 21.
The Japanese Ambassador to Washington, Mr, Kensuke Horinou. chi, conferred with the Secretary State, Mr, Cordell Hull, on his own initiative ' yesterday and informed] him that Tokyo feels there is no divergence between the points of view of the United States and Japan regarding the status of the Nether-Jands East Indies, Japan has "great interests," but does not claim "special interests" in the Indies, Mr, Horinouchi. told the press he had informed Mr, Hull, The statement on the Japanese policy in regard to the status of the Indies, made by the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hachiro Arita, at Tokyo last Monday, was designed to ascertain The Hague's attitude in the event some foreign power offered protection because of the spread of the European war, the Ambassador declared.
He said both the statements of the United States and the Nether~ lands were satisfactory to Japan, He declined to say what Mr. Hull had told him or to interpret Mz, Arita's statement—United Press,
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