Japan is anxious to avoid British interference in Japanese-Dutch East Indies trade, it was pointed out. If Japan undertakes to ration herself by refraining from re-exporting rubber and other commodities to Vladivostok from where they can reach Germany, Britain will probably agree to keep her hands off Japanese commerce in the East Indies, it was believed.
Japan is also seriously attempting to assure herself of a steady wool supply, for which she is now constrained to go mostly to London, ^|since Britain bought the entire Australian wool crop.
These questions may have been among those discussed when Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu visited the Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, on Wednesday and also when he called on Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Thursday observers believed—United Press.
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