[State for the Colonies, dealing with China in @ speech at Birmingham to-day, said that a fraction of This busybodies,. professing to speak in mature of the name of Labour, were sending messages to China ' which - could lonly mislead the Chinese.
'This section pretended to have influence over the Government' policy. Mr. Amery declared: "As a Jmatter of fact they have no more influence over the policy of thi Jcountry than a fly. The only thing they can do is to produce harm, Striking Statement by a Radical Weelly Feb. 4.
The weekly papers, the: "Specta-for" and the "Nation," congratu-ate Sir Austen Chamberlain -on his Liberal and large-minded speech Birmingham, the latter declaring t the Foreign Secretary has con-Jeeded in principle almost anything that any Chinese leader had ever Jdemanded, which must go a long. way to take the wind out of the sails of the Chinese Communists land their Russian advisers, "It would be a pity," comments the "Nation," (a very radical paper) "if the significance of the speech were obscured by the troops controversy. Let no one imagine that, troops were not sent there would not hate been a risk of cerions developments, (The italics are ours) [The division which has been sent is hopelessly inadequate for offensive faction. We, therefore, conclude that the Government are wholly sincere in their purpose to provide against mob violence."
The So-called Imperialist The "Spectator" advocates _referring the whole question to. the [League of Nations "If nothing worthy the name of an agreement reached within a few weeks." Britain, while leading the world points out the \dox that
recommending magnanimous actron in China, still bears the odium being "the Imperialistic Power, par excellence, which is threatening [China with armed men."
'The paper concludes: "Having ct-{fered so much, Britain implies that, when the occasion is ripe, China shall, or ought to be, ax independent lof rules invented by' foreigners Britain, It is-now the task of the Canto and all other authorities China to make the occasion ripe. If Mr. Chen, through bad judg ment or through fear of his Russian elvisers, refuses a solid and fruitful peace, he will commit ax bad a mistake as is possible for w states. man to make.
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