The Archive · 1929

Shanghai, Dee. 7, 1929

CHINA AND KELLOGG PACT

To the Editor of the "Norrut-Ciuta DaiLy News."

Sin—The Chinese are expressing wild indignation with the Russians for breaking the Kellogg Pact, and are appealing to the foreign Powers for help against the Bolshevik treaty-breakers.

They are fully sentiments and in indeed it is the Russians, and not they themselves, who have broken that Pact. But the Kellogg Pact is only one of many international agreements; it has no sanctity that does not attach to all such instruments. It does not seem to have occurred to the Chinese that if they carry out their threat to decree, by unilateral action, the abolition of the extra~ territorial privileges of foreigners: next month, they can hardly expect: foreigners "to regard as wholly sincere their present professions of horror at the Russian violation of the anti-war agreement. Foreign extraterritorial rights are based on Tam, ete, HR

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