The Nationalist Government, however, would be lacking in candour if it should fail to regard and em: phasize that the best guarantee for effective protection of American and other foreign lives and property lies in the removal of the fundamental cause of the present cause of trouble between Nationalist China and the Powers, who continue to sustain tke unequal treat ies, Tt is these inequitable treaties which constitute the chief danger to foreign lives and property in China and the danger will persist so long as effective government is rendered difficult, by foreign insistence on conditions which at once are a humiliation and menace to nation which has known greatness and which to-day is conscious of a renewal of strength.
The Nationalist Government, accordingly, are prepared and ready to appoint delegates to negotiate with delegates of the United States a satisfactory settlement of the issues and. differences pending between Nationalist China and the United States of America on terms which would assure the legitimate interests of both countries and reciprocity in their relations—Reuter,
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