The National Associated Chambers of Com= merce of China have forwarded an English translation of an editorial comment in the "Ta-Kung Pao" on the forthcoming Conference at Brussels with the intimation that the views therein expressed are "truly representative of the Chinese viewpoint at this critical juncture and should be made known to the foreign community." The comment, it reproduced in full, would occupy two columns of this journal's space and, consequently, it is more convenient fo endeavour to summarize its gist, In the hope that thereby the instruction desired will adequately imparted. The comment seeks first to assess the attitude of Great Britain and the United States of America toward the Far Bas the former is credited with "a correct perse Live" but "the weakness of being too coneiliae tory towards Japan"; the latter is anxious to maintain the "guiding principle of international collaboration" but has not taken "into full Cognizance the trend of the existing and future developments in the Far East, The commentafor goes on to emphasize the determination of the Chinese people to resist any further aliena~ tion of their territory. In recent years their leaders" efforts to combine economic reconstruction with avoidance of international complica tions have compelled retreat before the advance of Japan, who is pictured as resolute in arresting China's industrial growth, Japan's Pan-Asia policy: is criticized i timed against Great Britain and Amerien and China's failure to support it has been treated as "antisJapanese" perversity. If China hesitates to resist, she will {cease to be independent:
The final stage of our enduran shelter with Japan under a common sky.
The British and American Governments are therefore asked to realize that there is a unanimous resolve to face a long war and it Is hoped that Great Britain and. America will recognize that help to China benefits themselves, that a fundamental settlement must be reached and that no half measures will build an endur-Ing peace. This plea for concerted action against Japan has been made several times in recent weeks, It is natural but candour impels reitera~ tion of the view that It takes insufficient account of the definite statements frequently made by British and American statesmen long. before the crisis broke. It may be true that certain tendencies have not been" accurately in London or in Washington, bu! equally true that pleas for foreign intervention to that term the usual Interpretation is siven—have ignored the plain facts of the world Situation and the declarations of policy consist ently, made by the representatives of the two objects of this eloquent exhortation
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