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Kuo to her fate, supposing they dia) find her too costly, but must continue support her with money and their junned forces, no matter what status, it will' not be clear to the mary person how, by just calling her independent, they are going tv preserve themselves from making "the! Same mistake as they. made with! Korea." A more practical argument against annexation is perhaps the circumstance that, even now, the Japanese are experiencing consider~ able difficulty in finding a sufficient umber of suitably trained officials to administer the country. And this fact may be partly responsible for their wrong handling of the Chinese.
'Tt must, however, not be left ow of "consideration that annexation' would at least solve another Manchoukuo's problems: that of her foreign relations, which are to-day, say the least, ambiguous. As things fare at present, if any serious question crops up affecting foreign interests the consular offelal concerned cannot directly approach the Manchoukuo government officially. But as. the Question must be settled somehow, if only by some temporary arrangement, foreign consular officials often have to request the good services of Japanese consuls in the matter. A still clearer ease is that of the oil monopoly where the foreign powers have bee: protesting to Japan, only to be told that it isa purely Manchoukuo affair. Wt'ls obvious that this state o€ things cannot continue indefinitely.
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