POINTS OF DIFFERENCE
The United States is understood to be attempting to confine the immediate situation to the status of Americans in Japanese-controlled areas and to other technical points resulting from America's freezing action. Tokio. on the other hand, insists on a broader discussion of Japanese-American relations including Japan's greater Far East programme.
The spokesman of the Cabinet Information Board, Mr Ishii, commenting on the sailing of an American tanker for Vladivostok, said Japan could not bo expected to remain indifferent to the delivery of war supplies to Russia.
The Japanese Foreign Office has protested against United States insinuation that Americans were being held in Japan as hostages. The Foreign Office alleges that Washington has misrepresented Japan's position regarding her refusal to permit the liner President Coolidge to call at a Japanese port to pick up the hundred Americans waiting to leave. The Foreign Office will make a statement providing explanation shortly. In Washington, the Secretary of State. Mr Hull, stated that Japan had
not given a satisfactory explanation of her refusal to permit the Americans to depart.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 5
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