JAPAN: VICE-PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY OF THE UNITED STATES IN TALKS WITH MR SATO, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER

Record ID: 337205

  • Title: JAPAN: VICE-PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY OF THE UNITED STATES IN TALKS WITH MR SATO, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER
  • Date: 30th December 1965
  • Summary: MR HUMPHREY SEATED WITH MR SATO. Initials DE/V/AW/ES Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th January 1966 12:00
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  • Location: TOKYO -- JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Reuters ID: LVA9Q28BF9T5F9SV88JAZUNT3KMJ
  • Story Text: VICE-PRESIDENT HUBERT HUMPHREY OF THE UNITED STATES SPENT 18-HOURS IN TOKYO ON WEDNESDAY AT THE BEGINNING OF A FIVE-DAY TOUR OF ASIA. DURING HIS VISIT HE MET AND TALKED WITH MR EISAKU SATO, THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN. MR HUMPHREY ASKED MR SATO FOR THE HELP OF JAPAN "OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENT" IN BRINGING ABOUT PEACE IN VIETNAM.

    DURING HIS TALKS WITH MR SATO, MR HUMPHREY HANDED THE JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER A DOCUMENT WHICH OUTLINES 190 CONVERSATIONS WHICH THE SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK HAS HAD WITH VARIOUS DIPLOMATS AND OTHERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO ASSEMBLE A PEACE CONFERENCE ON VIETNAM, MR HUMPHREY TOLD MR SATO THAT WHEN DEMONSTRATORS CALL FOR THE UNITED STATES TO WITHDRAW FROM VIETNAM THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE UNITED STATES WANTED TO DO. BUT, HE ADDED, THE UNITED STATES COULD NOT DO THIS UNTIL THE FREEDOM AND PEACE OF VIETNAM WERE GUARANTEED.

    IN HIS TALKS WITH MR SATO, MR HUMPHREY WAS ACCOMPANIED BY THE UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO TOKYO, MR EDWIN REISCHAUER AND MR JACK VALENTI, A PRESIDENTIAL ASSISTANT.

    LATER HE FLEW ON TO MANILA, IN THE PHILIPPINES TO REPRESENT THE UNITED STATES AT THE INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT FERDINAND MARCOS TODAY (THURSDAY).
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