“IMPOSSIBLE” TERMS
SUGGESTIONS FOR PEACE JAPANESE ATTITUDE AMERICAN ENVOY’S PLEA (Reed. Nov. 3, 1.40 p.m.) TOKIO, Nov. 2. The Institute of the Pacific, the membership of which comprises the most prominent Japanese, in. a statement "ostensibly answering the criticism of Japanese action in China, levelled by the United States Ambassador in Tokio, Mr. Joseph Grew, says that the United States desires the kind of peace in China “which is not only undesirable but will be impossible to maintain. “Tiie first prerequisite of a fair, objective understanding must be the recognition that hostilities on a. large scale are now progressing in China. . . . The United States is attempting to perpetuate the system which ignores the desire of ail of the people of the world to develop by fairly, sharing all the fruits and opportunities offered by Mother Earth. We cannot-but note the glaring omission of the word ‘justice’ in the Ambassador's eloquent plea for peace.” the statement adds,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20086, 4 November 1939, Page 7
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