In a debate in the House of Commons on the Foreign. Office estimates, the Right Hon, G: N. arzan, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that nothing could: more definite or more precise than: the assurance of support given toi China, and: he denied' that the, open: door ceased to exist in Manchuria. or elsewhere, or that it was shut in: Britain's He said that the concessions secured by Great Britain in, China driving. the last: few months: were fur ea, tian: the obtained: by all ritain's rivals put, together, and-that this proved that Great Britain had maintained her- ascendancy-in the political counsels ug.
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