Tokyo, Feb. 16.
Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Ambassador to Washington, and President Roosevelt did not discuss specific Far Eastern developments during their meeting but limited their conversation to broader aspects of Japanese-American relations, according to a dispatch from Washington.
The President was said to have in+ dicated his desire to keep relations on a friendly basis and expressed confidence that if problems were approached on a basis of mutual desire fo preserve friendship, a conflict between the countries was still avoid: able.
The President is reported to have reiterated the United States' intention to continue giving the fullest aid to Britain by every possible means short of war. He was said to have stressed America's deep concern over China was heightened by the belief that the China and European con-fiots had become part of a single struggle, according to the dispatch.—Reuter.
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