The Archive · 1937

View on Brussels Talks

Nanking, Oct. 26.

China's attitude toward the Nine-Power Conference at Brussels should neither be optimistic nor pessimistic, declared Mr. Ting Wei-fen, member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, at the weekly memorial service at the Party Headquarters yesterday.

Although the forthcoming conference, he said, is called by Powers desirous of upholding the sanctity of the Nine-Power Treaty, the most important factor which makes its convocation possible is the determination of the Chinese people to resist Japanese aggression. It is this spirit of sacrifice on the part of the Chinese people that has won world-wide sympathy and admiration.

Success or failure "of the forthcoming international gathering depends upon China's ability in carrying on the present struggle for existence.

"World opinion will be with China if we keep up our resistance against the aggressor, for, in doing so, we are upholding international peace as well" he concluded—Central New:

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