1939-12-30 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 30, 1939

JAPAN AND UNITED STATES

TOKYO STRAINING TO PREVENT

TALK INTERRUPTION

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Tokyo, To-day.

Well-informed quarters state that the necessity to

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avoid interruption in the Japanese-American VALUE

talks has been one of the main reasons for the Premier, General Abe's decision to remain in office.

It is believed that the New Year holidays, which tra- ditionally extend until the second week in Jan- uary, will be used for consolidating the position of the Cabinet in order to enable it to resume talks with America and achieve some results when the Diet re-opens on January 21, five days before the expiration of the 1911 Treaty.

MOSCOW PRESS CENSORSHIP

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

MOSCOW, TO-DAY. DECISION TO AGAIN THE

CENSORSHIP ON ESTABLISH. PRESS TELEGRAMS WAS SUD- DENLY IMPARTED TO ALL FOR- WHO EIGN CORRESPONDENTS WERE SUMMONED TO THE FOR- EIGN AFFAIRS COMMISSARIAT AT MIDNIGHT,

The censorship of press telegrams was abolished when M. Molotov was appointed Foreign Commissar,

and the

it was generally assumed that Soviet felt strong enough not to bo- ther about the opinion of foreign cor- respondents.

Apparently the Finnish

campaign

is the main reason for the resump- tion of censorship on outgoing-mes- sages. Havas.

Meanwhile, Mr. Suma, spokesman of the Japanese Foreign Office, stated that several interviews between the American Ambassador, Mr. Grew, and the Foreign Minister, Admiral Nomura, are likely before this date. Mr. Suma stated that the preliminary parleys aimed at the establishment merely of a "modus vivendi" between Japan and the United States. Such modus viven- di would not necessitate approval from Congress before being enforced.

Mr. Suma cited three precedents this year, namely, the modus vi- vendi algned by President Roose- velt with Germany, Italy and Russia, without

previous agreement of Congress.

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Mr. Suma further stated the opinion that it would be possible by such mo- dus vivendi not only to prolong the previous treaty for one year, for in- stance, but also to add new articles to the text of the old treaty.

He concluded that the Japanese decision partially to re-open the Yangtse must not be interpretad as a basla for any bargaining with the United States, but the decision was freely taken by Tokyo.

"We will do what we said, whatever the-fate-of-the-trade treaty--may-be," he concluded.-Havas.

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