Washington, Feb. 11.
The action of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee facilitating a new U.S$20000000 loan to China apparently diminished Congressional pressure for an embargo against Japan, informed Congressional sources revealed yesterday. Senator "Hiram Johnson, California Republican, said the embargo situation is an "impenetrable. mystery.'-—United ress, China, as Investment Field Tokyo, Feb. 11.
^American pressure hag been brought to a point where the Japan. ese Government must review and revise its attitude toward the United States, Mr. Yoshiharu Yutani a Jikyo Kudoshikai Party member, told the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives yesterday.
American pressure has intensified through the action of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in making it possible for China to secure a U.S.$20,000,000 loan, he said. He recalled that the Premier, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, told the Diet recently that if the United States persists in bringing pressure to bear Japan would be prepared to meet the situation. The situation to which the Premier referred has now arisen with the assurance that China will receive a new loan, Mr, Yutani declared.
Mr, Yutani pointed out that the United States imported US$40,000,000,- 000 in gold year and American businessmen are now turning to China for new investments instead of to South America, Answering Mr. Yutani, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, said that Japan has not been officially notified of the intention of the United States io, make.a loan to China, He said Japan. is contemplating various counter-measures that might be taken. to meet the new Japanese-American situation. However, he declared, these measures could not revealed in their present stage.—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.