The Archive · 1940

Roosevelt Declines Comment

Washington, Oct. 5. The President left: unanswered riy questions presented by Washington correspondents in an effort to determine the Administration's next moves in the Orient.

Asked to comment on Japanese press reports that the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, would resign at the end of the President's current term' of office, Mr. Roosevelt said the report was "just another rumour Mr. Hull himself told the press later that the Japanese report was "just another report." He said he was willing to serve his country in any capacity "from door-keeper up."—United Press. s mostly economic, the Pı mier revealed. Japan's assurances to French Indo-China on the stationing of Japanese troops in French Indo-

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