Asked if the United States had refrained from invoking the act in the Far {ast because United States interests in China were not threatened, Mr. Hackworth answered that "American interests are and have been hurt in China.... But to invoke the' act would prejudice United States interests even more than they are now."
Earlier, Mr, Mackworth was asked it the State Department considered that Japan was at war with China. He replied that "we have never gone that far." He contended that it might be unwise and dangerous to declare nations at war when they themselves did not contend that they were—United Press.
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