"The Chinese Government _and people feel deeply confident that the interdependence of the different ations of the world is making it jereasingly manifest to all thinking minds that the renunciation of war and x frank avowal of the need of friendly relations is the only means to save civilization from the danger of destruction. We are, indeed, brought before the supreme test whether, after those painful experiences of a few years ago which still linger in our memory, we are not yet convinced of the absolute necessity of a real spirit of mutual ce-operation to guide us in our national policies towards another. It is therefore a source of profound satisfaction to see that this notion of momentous import ance, so ably sponsored by the United States of America, is receiv ing universal response,
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