The interested Powers "show a marked tendency to display an unnecessarily great fear of Japan" in his opinion, the Vice-Minister said, and he attributed this to the circula-ion in Great Britain of a "false report that Japan was about to begin moving southward immediatel; It was regrettable that such a report created further discussion in the Netherlands East Indies, the Vice-Minister said, voicing the belief that the recent conference in Washington between Mr. Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State, ard the Britis Australian and Netherlands envoys may have been precipitated by such a development.
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