Sertainly that interpretation i: wholly in accord with Japan's record since 1931 when the Mukden incident as made the opportunity for the beginning of the conquest of Manchuria, Professing a desire to achieve Eastern Asiatig continental stability through conciliation and ce-operation between Japan, 'Manchukuo' and China, the Japanese Government row pursues a course which makes such collaboration impossible.
"To charge the accumulating ant! Japanese wrath of the Chinese as the result of political agitation is to cover patent facts, Japan by outraging Chinese feeling through flagrant and prolonged disregard and violation of China's right as a sovereign state is itself primarily responsible for the condition it deplores. To call upon the Chinese Government and people—as did the Japanese premier on Monday-—to reconsider and show self-restraint is almost a mockery so long as the Japanese cabinet allows its military command in the Peiping area a free hand in the issuance and enforcement of humiliating ultimatums, "Mr, Hirota expresses the hope that the Governments of other Powers will understand fully Japan's attitude of patience and self-restraint. He is optimistic. For it is an open secret that the Powers, except Gen and haps Italy, have let Japan know r concern lest its demands embroil the East in a war. Faced by the gravest crisis since the conflict with Czarist Russia, Japan would perilously misread the feelings of the western world were it to assume that public sentiment abroad approves her policy of coercion in China."
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