Commenting on the Japanese Foreign Ministers address before the Diet that "Japan's policy is solely directed toward the realization of stability in East Asia through conciliation and ce-operation between Japan, Manchoukuo and China by stopping Communist invasion," the "New York Times" editorial states that the above expression of Japan "has for us a hollow sound. Accompanied and followed by a rising crescendo of hand grenade, rifle, bomb and heavy artillery explosions outside China's ancient capital, Peiping, the Japanese official statement is strangely incongruous."
"Professing that its mission is to secure its positions as the stabilizing force in East Asia' Japan is the one country which to-day menaces stabi ity and threatens peace in that area The editorial further points out that to use the July 7 incident to force the Chinese Government to renounce central authority over Hopei and Charhar and to invite Japanese troops to "ce-operate" toward the eradication of Communism in North China is to indicate that by "stabilization" is meant Japanese hegemony.
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