THE OPEN DOOR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 11

THE OPEN DOOR

PRINCIPLE RECOGNISED

LEAGUE PROCEEDINGS

(British Official Wireless.) ' (Received 9th January, 11 a-m.) RUGBY, Bth. January. In regard to the Note which the united fctates Government has sent t» the Japanese and Chinese Government! vrath reference to recent events in, Manchuria, calling attention to th» terms of the Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg Pact, it. is stated in. Londoa that the American Government's proposal to send a Note was communicated to Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador at Washington a few days, ago, and a copy sent to him at the time ?* + ". . disPatch. It is understood that similar* action was taken with other Washington representatives of the countries, parties to the Nine-Power Treaty. -

It is recalled that at the recent League Council meetings on the Maachurian situation the Japanese delegate gave a definite assurance to the ■L?>gue that Japan would observe tha principle of the open door to which the American Note calls attention. As a non-member of the League the United States is in a somewhat different posi. mi. m th- e ot*er interested Powers. The question is deceiving the consideration of the Foreign Secretary, and the French Ambassador, M. Fleuriau, has called to see him in regard to th« matter.