Claimed "Open Door" Policy As U.S. Wants in China Tokyo, Mar, 2.
What Mr, Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, meant when he referred to the "White men" of oceania handing it back to the Asiatics, was that an equal opportunity and "open door policy" as demanded in China by the United States should have the same meaning in their Pacific pos-sions and protectorates, says an editorial in the "Japan Times and Advertiser." Japanese-owned English language newspaper.
A common sense limit was the meaning of Mr. Matsuoke's quick answer to the Diet interpellator, says the newspaper, commenting on reper cussions on the Foreign Minister's speech in which he advocated" Oceania for the oceanians."—Reuter.
Tokyo, Mar. 2.
The Vichy government's counterproposals to the Japanese plan for settlement of the Thai-Indochina dispute were received by the French delegation yesterday, the "Nichi-Nichi Shimbun" believes, 'U.S. Red Cross Charters Supply Ship for France Prospects for the successful outcome of negotiations are bright. This. the newspaper adds, is due to the French government's beginning to understand Japan's pure and impartial motive.
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