In further explanation of his foreign policy as given out by the Kuo Min News Agency on February 22, General Huang Fu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, interviewed by a press representative said as follows:
"While international treaties are binding and, therefore legally speaking, the treaties entered into between the defunct Peking Govern ment and the Powers previous to the establishment of the Nationalist Government have to be recognized valid, at the same time, most of these treaties are humiliating to ea nationei dignity and greatly de trimental % our interests. Sup ported by the entire strength of the Nationaifst Government, I shall try to reach the goal either of abrogating or" revising these unilateral and unequal " tre Of course, our method of abrogate these' treaties must be -other The Loans we Oppose "As regards those treaties for loans contracted from foreign governments by Peking since "the establishment of the Nationalist Government, we naturally cannot recognize them as valid, the Nationalist Government having already publicly declared its opposition to them at Canton, "More recently still, the Communists secretly intended to concede Mongolia in favour of Russia to obtain assistance so as to prolong their agitation. Chang Tso-lin likewise has planned Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway og a quid pro quo for Sapanese money and other assist lance. "The Nationalist Government mindful of such dangers, specially declared its attitude in order thet the Japanese and Russian Governments may awaken -to their mistaken greed for their salish inttreats of the ith mediate future, forgetting that the Nationalist' Government is China's sole organ for foreign relations, and thereby complications in the
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