Evening star., 1933-05-04
|SHI SA|LSF0R US.
TO SEE ROOSEVELT
Japanese Spokesman Hopes
to Discuss Manchukuo
With President.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, May 4-Viscount Kukijiro
Ishii left today for his conferences with
President Roosevelt to defend Japan's
role as primary defender of the
peace of the Orient" and to urge Ameri-
can recognition of Manchukuo.
Also, ii the American President offers
an opening for such arguments, the 67-
year-old statesman Is prepared to de-
fend the japanese conquest Of Man
churia and the establishment therein
Of the Manchukuo government.
Accompanying the viScount are Eigo
Fukai, vice governor Of the Bank Of
Japan, and seven advisers and secre-
taries. They went by train to Yoko-
hama, when they sailed for the United
States on the Tatsuta Maru.
Before leaving, Viscount Ishii told a
representative of the Associated Press
that his role at the White House talks
and later at the World Economic Con-
political,
Concerned In New Treaty.
The economic aspects Of the mission,
he added, will be left to Fukai, lead
ing Japanese business man who at
tended the peace conference in 1918
and who was a japanese delegate to
the Washington Arms Conference In
1921. ,
Probably the first and most vital
task he will have in Washington. Mr..
Ishii said. will be to learn from Presi-
dent Roosevelt just how far and IN
what directions the idea OF consulta-
tive pact will be carried to implement the
KelIogg-Briand peace treaty developed
in the Presidents talks with Prime
Minister Macdonald of Great Britain
and former Premier Herriot OF France.
This is of the utmost importance to
Japan, and we are still ignorant about
what has been DONE" said Viscount
Ishii regarding the latest peace pro-
I'm view of recent history. obviously
Japan must proceed with the utmost
caution" he added.
other officials confirmed that Japan
could accept a consultative pact 1nvolv-
ing the defining of aggressor nations
only with the strongest reservations
concerning Japan's right to adequate
self-defense forces.
Will Proceed Carefully.
In view of special conditions in the
Orient" where Japan considers herself
faced with "menacing neighbors," China
and Russia, they said, the matter OF q
consultative pact must be studied care
fully
Still smarting under the censure Of
the League of Nations, which branded
her as an aggressor against China, ia
pan is not at all likely to enter fresh
agreements involving the danger Of new
forms of international censure and pres
sure. the envoy indicated.
Naturally, the President will lead our
conversations" Ishii said.
He added that he expected to be
called on to rebut "the anti-Japanese
representations of the Chinese mission
headed by DR.. T. v. Soong.
He is confident, the viscount said
that the American people as well as
properly to evaluate the falsity and
futility of Chinese propaganda"
Hopes for Understanding.
1T is futile to expect anything like
the Ishii-Lansing agreement to result
from the present visit to Washington"
he said in reference to the famous
agreement regarding Manchuria OF
which he was the co-author in 1917.
Even If the American Government
were in more receptive mood, my four
days In Washington will be too short
for such concrete results.
However, I am confident that when
America once understands Japan's real
purposes In Manchuria the way will be
cleared for a new era Of japanese
American sympathy and friendship