Geneva, Feb, 25.
A copy of Colonel Stimson's let ter to Senator Borah on the subject of American policy in China was handed to-day to the Seerelariat of the League of Nations Chinese Leaders' View of Letter The follo itoment on the {Stimson letter has been issued by Mr. Sun Fo, late President of the [Executive Yuan of the National (Government at Nanking, and Mr.
'You have here the explanation why Japan dares to tear' up and thrust into the gutter the League Covenant and those two Awerican documents, the Nine-Power Treaty' Jand the Kellogg Pact. At this moment, no single Power in the arid can compel Japan, by force of arms, to honour or respect any! treaty or any international obligation to Which she is a party. ther America nor England alone can Jcompel her, though she can certainly be coerced by an Anglo-American naval combination, Such a naval combination is an! imperative world's need if Japan is to, be. prevented, immediately. or within the next three or six months. from further, misuse of the. great power entrusted to her. Should [this combination be impracticable for lack of vision and understanding of the Japanese menace, than. the task of restraining Japan in. her Jcourse of violence must eventually fall on America, and America must set about to regain her commanding Tend on_ naval construction. The United States must. intervene in terriis of naval force because Japan's Jannexation of Manchuria and her domination of China, which is postulfated by Japanese control of, Shanghai andthe line of the lower Yangisze, are essenial in" ber system" of" prepara-{ion for the mastery of the Pacific. [This means that the invisible but real Government of Japan, namely} the General Staff in Tokyo, who Planned and prepared for the war ith China in 1804 and planned and prepared for the war with Tsardom 1904, have and
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