July 21.
General Chiang Kai-shek broke silence to some purpose in his address at Kuling to an immediate: audience which, important as it was, was probably less in his mind, than the mass of the nation beyond" The Generalissimo dotted the "i and crossed the "ts" of the formal diplomatic document presented by Government in reply to. the Japanese Note on the northern risis. Restraint and reasonableness marked his firm statement of China's position. It may be argued, of course, that in asserting the Central Government's right to supervise the actions of the Hopei-Charhar Council and standing on the territorial integrity and sover-eighty of China, he was ignoring, past events which had resulted almost in the tacit abrogation of} hat position in relation to Japanese!
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