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Show JAPAN PLEDGES SUPPORTTO U. 5. WILL FIGHT SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH AMERICA TO A CERTAIN VICTORY. Viscount Ishii in Felicitous Address on Floor of the Senate Pledges Support. Sup-port. of His Nation in War For World Freedom. Washington. A message oC fellowship fellow-ship ami good will from .lapiiu was delivered to the senate on August 10 by Viscount Ishii, ambassador on special spe-cial mission, with an assurance that Japan is in the war to stay ami to fight shoulder to shoulder with America Amer-ica to a certain victory. In a tribute to Thomas Jefferson and the American ideal of life, Viscount Vis-count Ishii told the senators that the Japanese ideal of national life, in its final analysis, was not so very far removed re-moved from theirs. "We conceive of our nation as a vast family," he said, "held together not by arbitrary force of armed men, but by the force of a natural development." develop-ment." The ambassador and other members of the mission were received on the floor of the senate with formal ceremony cere-mony by Senator Saulsbury, president pro tem, in the absence of Vice President Presi-dent Marshall. His address, read in English, frequently was interrupted by hearty applause from senators and spectators. |
