The Shanghai manager of the German News Office (DNB) has issued the following interpretation of Herr Hitler's speech regarding China and Manchoukuo:—With regard to the declaration of the German Chancellor, Herr Adolf Hitler, made on February 20 before the Reichstag, German official circles express the opinion that this statement clearly reveals that the recognition of Manchoukuo by Germany can in no way be constructed as an act directed against China; it has nothing to do with the present Sino-Japanese conflict, but must be interpreted as being part and parcel of an attitude which takes into consideration Germany's policy as a whole vis-a-vis the League of Nations.
Germany wants to dissociate herself from the policy of the League of Nations and wants to base her policy on facts and realities, She believes that this is a better policy than the method of the League of Nations to adopt one-sided, purely platonic resolutions which can only lead to false hopes, The present Sino-Japanese conflict is looked at in the Fuehrer's speech from the point of the German attitude toward the world danger of Bolshevism and in this connection it mentions the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact, But at the same time the Fuehrer makes it quite clear that there is no necessity nor any desire on the part of Germany to take sides in the conflict. Germany is determined now as before to remain neutral and to maintain her tradition al friendship towards China and her people,
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