Wang on China's Love of Peace \d_ Traditional Abstention from War: The Unequal Treaties Again Reuter's news agency issues the following address by Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Mablon F, Perkins, U. S. Oharyé d\Affaires, which ' necompanied the Chinese acceptance of the invitation to sign the Peace Poet.
Nanking, Sept. 13, 1928.
Sir—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication dated August 27 which the Government the United States of Ame presents for my consideration and for the approval of my Government the text of a' treaty that, was signed on' the same day dri Paris by the Governments of Germany, "the United States of America, Belgium, France, Great Britain,' Canada,' Australia, New Zealand, South 'Africa, the' Ivish Free State, India, Thaly, Japan, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia binding them to renounce war as an instrument of national policy in thei relations with one another and to centres round the ideal of harmony. It is indeed difficult, if not impossible, to.find in all our thinkers a view of life which justifies conflict in any form as the basis of a national policy, and I venture to think that it is this idea of harmony and peace which accounts for the stability of our civilization and the extraordinary length of our history. The present treaty to renounce war fs, in fact, a vindication of the teachings of our revered ancestors, and especially as these teachings, which, have been amplified by our Tate Teader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, so clearly embodied in such noble principles as Universal Justice and "The Brotherhood of Nations', are also at the present moment being applied in the building up of a new Chin: the Chinese people are prepared to join with America and the other signatory Powers with more than: the usual enthusiasm in endeavouring to attain the noble ends of peace, The Treaties of Course week only by pacific means the settlement of solution of all disputes which may arise among them, Foundation of Chinese Life "The ideals which uro embodied in this treaty of extraordinary significance are the foundation on which the national life of the Chine: people is constructed, and T wish, therefore, immediately to avail myself of this opportunity to inform of universal pence and for the advance world civilization, aroused our sympathetic interest from the Dewinning and that in its form as a definitive treaty, my Government has decided to edhers to it without delay.
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