Shanghai, Sept. 8
The plea of the Japanese intolleetuals that their Government shall appreciate thata new China has emerged, rapidly achieving a true national' unity, and in respect of which the old' Japanese formula of treatment is no longer applicable, Is supported by the page taken from British relationships with China, which might well encourage Britain's Japanese admirers to press for a similar re-orientation on Japan's part. In 1926 Great Britain, disregarding the advice of soulitant groups of laymen in China and elsewhere, announced through Sir Austen Chamberlain a new policy towards Chin Belying the fears and protestations of betrayal on the part of some of her subjects, "the Chamberlain Memorandum ushered in a period of ood relations between Great Britain and China and mutual trust and respect between the British and Chinese peoples, The Refugee's Protectors the Editor of the "Nonri-Cuina Dat News"
—You are quite right, Awommen Awenenr. "And may I ask what is wrong with our "White Russians on Chinese passports," what is_ wrong with our being "an asylum for ref lugees"? Did T or did I not read the other day that France had opened her frontier to helpless refugees from Spain? Out of the past Dean hear the voices of wrathful opponents of the Allens Bill, as they told each other, thumping the table: "By God, sir, England has always been a ref-luge for the oppressed—let her remain 301" A one-sided view, perhaps, but in some elreumstances "an asylum for refugees" is not a bad thing to be, Anetext, Shanghai, Sept. 8.
It is important that this gleam change of Japanese attitude towards China should be encouraged to the full. Every opportunity should be taken in cities in China, and partiularly in Shanghai, by well-wishers of a Japanese-Chinese rapprochement to urge upon local Japanese groups the desirability of salving with both hands this opportunity to seek Chinese goodwill in the only way in which it can possibly be allained, that is, by a policy of mutual respect and a Jattempt to appreciate the root causes present dividing Japan and China. May we plead with our local Japanese intellectuals and liberals (0 come forward, at this vital moment, and Tend their support in bringing the resent tremendous potentialities for Sino-Japanese accord to fruition.
Shanghai, "Sept. 8
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