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Show JAPANESE DESIRE PEACE-., Such Is Assurance of American Traveler Trav-eler Upon Return. Snn Francisco. Jnpnn deslros more than anything else to maintain friendly relations with the United States, J. Uussell Kennedy, bend of the Kokusnl news agency of Jnpnn, declared in un nddrcss before Klwauls club hero Friday. Fri-day. Mr. Kennedy, who hns Just completed com-pleted n tour of tho United States utter about fifteen yenrs In the far eiiHt, snld that everywhere he went he had been asked whether there was to bo war between the two countries. "If It were not for the serious side of thnt question, Involving, as It does, the suggestion of n (rented Impression of u possibility, Indeed of a probability, probabili-ty, the question In Itself would be chlldlshln absurd," ho declared. "I can glve'you tho most solemn ns.sur-nnce ns.sur-nnce thnt If there Is one thing In the world that Japan wishes to avoid more than another, It Is the ' rupture of friendly relations between this country nnd herself." |