London, Feb. 27. most encouraging event" the comment made by Viscount Cecil lof Chelwood to-day concerning the half-column letter' signed by Vis jeount Ishii, Prince Tokugawa, Baron. Wakatsuki, Baron Dan_and Baron Matsui, cabled to "The Times" from Tokyo and printed prominently in that paper this morning and which said that the amazing "assertion that Japan is launched upon a course of military dor [Chinese territories be would Taughable if it were not so mis. lchieviously dangerous and timed, Shanghai, Feb, 28.
Although couched in the usual re-
Lord Cecil declared he was sure that if Viscount, Ishii had been in control of Japan's policy during the sifained fang cage of. diplomacy. the Stimson Letter to Senator Borah Fast four or five months there would a different situation to-day. Fir East, bat" it contains' alto additional Aunerican policy in the pot erly a assertion of the If Japan, he continued, made a determined effort to end the fight siled threat" that "unless Japan ting in China and showed herself. wakes to her obligations under the amenable to suggestions from those Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg who are not her ill-wishers but Briand Pact, there is a possibility determined advocates of the m a'Mtitanie storm en the Pacific" tenance of peace by collective ae.
'This, in effec, isthe opinion ofthe tion, he was quite sure we should leading 'Chinese. dally newspapers sce that bad chapter of history, recording toa survey' made by the Kuo Min News Agency.
But, he remarked, Japan, from Stressing the assertion made February 9, had been acting'on the hho was forced to cone the letter that" the, Nine-Power 'Treaty and the Five-Power' Naval tirely the military sec-Treaty (both of which were coneludwre now conducting Japanese ed at the Washington Conference) Policy. which Japan is unable to tolerate, Japan must progress. Also, it must boo realised that Manchuria' is vital Japan's life."—United Press.
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