It is sutistactory to note that the Charhar affair has been settled by a friendly conference between the parties who admit to "misunderstandings" and, therefore, implicitly dispute of suggestions of bad fah. This puts on a sounder basly the efforts which have lately been made to bring Sino-Japanese relations on a pleasanter footing. General Chiang Kai-shek's unfabering donal of any anxiety over Japan's ultimate alms fully accords with the statesmanlike tone of Mr. Hirota's recent speech. It should encourage those who, with tome reason perhaps, ponder doubtfully over the apparent lack of liaison in Tokyo. representatives there has been effec lively used to reassure Nanking and to secure a less diffident attitude toward those questions in which Sino. Japanese ce-operation is important to the interests of the two countries and to the Far Eastern stability. Neither China nor Japan need be in doubt that this evidence of smoother relationships will be cordially hailed by their friends of whatever nationality, "Without laying too much stress on hoves which, before now, have een dismally frustrated, it is possible to believe that, the world over, there Is a sincerer' and" more practical endeavour to search for th= conditions of peaceful cooperation. Whether the nightmare of extreme nationalism is assed, must be an open question.
significant, however, that the tentative approaches now being made between nations must of necessity depend for their success on a gradual return to the sane principle of interdependence. China and Japan, as the result of the conversations between General Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. JAriyoshi, have shown their appreciation of this better way. In Tokyo Mr. "Hirota has signified his own leaning to the same direction. It ie the duty of all to permit that spirit to find the fullest and "most rapid expression.
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