The Archive · 1939

Japan Wants Friendship With America

Mr. Yoshizawa Comments on Recent Developments

Minister, in an interview today said that hè believed the Japan-

èd States, Foreign Minister in ihe Inukai Cabinet of 1982, Mr. Yoshizawa said that "we realize that unless something is done the conditions could east worsen and We wish to d¥oid that."

Meanwhile, the "Institute of the Pacific" whóse directors ihčlüdè Mr. Yoshizawa and the Premier, General Nobuyuki Abe, issued a statement answering the recent speech made in Tokyo by the American Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Joseph C. Grew, in which he clearly said that Americans were aroused over some Japanese army actions in China.

The statement praised the frankness used by Mr. Grew. in informing the Japanese of the existing opinion regarding Japan ili the United States, but said at America must realize that the present hostilities in China make peacetime privileges inapt plicable—United Press, German Mission Buys

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