Customs officials yesterday flatly denied rumeüre that the Soviet ships which left for Vladivostok on Tues dey and Friday. were tarrying war suooMes. The officials disclosed that, quire as to the state of the negoti -|tions uttered by the Chief Executions. tive mark a new and decisive star Berlin Complaint in the relations of the United State: with the Reich.
Berlin is said to be complaining The leader of the senate majority, that it is not kept sufficiently inform-Senator Alben W. Barkley. comment ed about th: negotiations and to have ing on the President" speech, declare expressed some dissatisfaction. The to the representatives -of the pre Japanese Government is believed to that "the President outlined before Lave replied that the Tripartite Pact the people of íhe United States the is in no way leopardiz-d by the Japa-problems which they had to face and nese-American agreement, and its described the methods which he in spirit Is even respected accord-tended to use in order to solve them ing to the Japanese viewpoint, assert-According to the President's onini" ed since its signature: in September there was no other wav to follow" 1940, the pact is an instrument of "The President's speech amounts to peace destined to prevent the exten-a declaration of war in as far as this sion of war to the Far East. is possible within the personal powers The British attitude, during the of the Chief Executive," Senator Gu" negotiations, seems to have been to keep out of them and give a carte-M. Gillette of Iowa declared upon being requested to present als blanche to the United States in order opinion on Roosevelt's speech. to avoid strengthening the opinion in Japanese quarters that Japan is in Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada presence of an Anglo-Saxon coalition. held an opinion somewhat similar to However, nothing has been done that of his Iowa colleague and con-, without "the approval of London, sidered that "President Roosevelt-which will probably conclude an speech is an unauthorized declaration agreement with Japan similar in substance to that between Tokyo and Senator Elbert D. Thomas was in Washington. complete disagreement with these views, asserting that "to chase The China Affair pirates off the oceans is not to wage Finally, the Japanese attitude towards Soviet Russia is said to have German-Americans Pro-Roosevelt contributed much to the conclusion of the Japan'se-American basic agree-Washington, Sept. 13. ment." Information from unimpeach-A recently formed organization in able sources bring confirmation to the United States, calling itself previous reports that Japan is de-"Laval Americans of German De-smous of seeing the Janan¢se-Russian scent," has just telegraphed President neutrality pact maintain its value.
Roosevelt whole heartedly approving The hypothesis of a Japanese ad-his radio address and "the action it vance in the direction of Vladivostok indicated. must be completely discarded today.
The organization assured the Pres-Japan's moderate stand regarding the ident: "You can count upon our passage of Am*rican war material via determination and help in routing Vladivostok results from the same Hitlerism everywhere."—Reuter. policy.
Well-informed circles here stress that if a basic agrement was possible it means that well-advanced parleys en the series of practical questions *U.S. Navy Faces brought about prospects of a more general agreement. This seems to be the case particularly for the problem
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