Matsuoka Says Roosevelt, Tokyo Dailies Comment Hull Should Visit Japan On Stalin's New Post Tokyo, May 5.
President Roosevelt and Mr, Cordeit Hull, Secretary of State, should visit Nippon in order to learn Japan's true Intentions, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, Foreign Minister, said in Kyoto las right, Mr, Matsuoka's opinion: was expressed to Japanese correspondents in Kyoto and prominently featured in the "Asahi" here, The headline over the story said that "Mr, Mate suoka "asserts the policy of" peace toward the United States remains Tokyo. May 8.
While the metropolitan daties evinced no surprise at Mf. Josef Stalin's assumption of the Chairmanship of the Couneit of People's Commissers, at the same time the Tokyo newspapers. the "Nichi-Nicht, "Asahi" and "Yomiuri" interpreted Stalin's action as meaning that the Soviet Union. wag preparing to meet any eventuality which might arise in the current European hostilities, especial ly in the Near East and the Balkans.
The "Nich/-NAchi" and "Asahi"
"Asked if he were going to Amér~ fea, Mr, Matsuoka replied, know Amieries well, There Is no necessity at present for me to visit America. Rather, President Roosevelt and Mr, Hull should come to Japan in order to learn real conditions here well as the true intentions of Sapan."
'Mr, Matsuoka declined to elaborate fon Japan's policy toward Americé He said, however, that, "T person~ ally intend to push a sincere peace polley to the end, with the determination that there is nothing which can not be moved' by sincerity. This sincerity is my. conviction, However, if sincerity has no effect, then T can't help it!
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