INTEREST IN AMERICA

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 124, 22 November 1932, Page 7

INTEREST IN AMERICA

PROMINENCE IN PRESS

OFFICIAL RETICENCE

XEW. YORK, 20th November.

Printing a 9000-word summary of the Japanese reply to the Lytton Commission's report and the full text of the address by Lord Lytton at Geneva, as well as numerous statements by various national spokesmen, leading journals in the United States devote a large amount of space to the Manchuriau question.

The State Department continues to maintain the same strict silence it enforced upon itself on the occasion of the original publication of the Lytton Commission's report and official comment of any sort is impossible to obtain. However, it seems to be indicated that the American Government is satisfied with the defensive role which Japan has been compelled to maintain, seeing nothing hi the Japanese reply to have altered that condition.

Early reports- from Tokio had indicated that the reply, in order to justify Japanese action in Manchukuo, would cite the action of the United States in establishing the Government .of Panama, which then signed over the Canal rights to the United States. The summary; <jf the reply; obtainable here

contains no such .reference, and considerable curiosity is felt as to the exact nature of the reference.

Lord Lytton 's address to-day was rebroadcast over the United States and the League of Nations discussions will be followed with great interest. The New York "Herald-Tribune" in a leader gives a warning against economic sanctions and a possible state of war, and declares that United States participation in the League's deliberations "would lay the State Department's motives open to misconstruction."

The "New York Times" commends -Lord Lytton's address to-day. "His appeal," it says, "was couched in a lofty persuasive tone befitting the high importance of the question cominobefore the League." "