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Show SAYS VENOMOUS GOSSIP HAS FAILED BOSTON, Sept. 19. The Japanese mission mis-sion will return home with the "absolute "abso-lute assurance that the true heart of America has not been reached by the i blight which has menaced us both," Vis- I count lahil declared at a luncheon tendered ten-dered the party at the Boston City club today. "The venomous gossip," he said, "that has for a decade endeavored to keep our nations apart; the differences between us In the past; tlve misunderstandings and the misinformation which so ensily ; finds credence, have perhaps caused doubt and suspicion to Influence, to some i extent, the people of your country and ours, but now, returning to our homeland, home-land, we can carry the message of ab- ! solute assurance that the true heart of j America has not been reached by the bllpht which has menaced us both, and that from now on, through all time, Japan and America in friendly council i together will follow steadfastly the path which leads to the fair fields of sweet content, each protected by the- other and each protecting the other from the enemy. en-emy. : "We are together in this great war to win freedom and to secure liberty, to give and to take, according to our needs. We are comrades and we are partners, i Ix-t us see to it that no enemy tongue or ! intrigue can at any tune throughout the. j years do anything to divide us. While ! this war shall last let us co-operate and ! fight together as comrades, so that after- wards the memory of what we have to- get her achieved may stand forever to perpetuate our friendship and so that from the ashes of destruction may rise a ' surer and safer world." ! |