House of Commons have necessarily to conform to the requirements of the recondite procedure governing the question-hour duel between the Government and the rest of the House. He has, however, given a more definite indication of the British view of present events in North China by his courteous but firm intimation to the Japanese Anbassador that so long as ihe situation in North China persists," it is, in the opinion of His Mayo: Government, "not opfortune" to open conversations with Japan, This, of course, does not imply any lack of friendliness toward Mr. Shigeru Yoshida or the count which he represents, It mere shows that the British Government desires to take the wise precaution of leaving no ground for assuming that Japan's present activi-lies in North China have any countenance from Great Britain, The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had already shown his intense anxiety lest the crisis should degenerate into a deteriorate beyond control. His carefully guarded answers fulfil the technical requirements of diplomatic etiquette. No less does that etiquette justify his polite dissociation of his Government from Japanese designs n North China. It has the merit of conveying an implicit opinion without giving offence.
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