On no more appropriate day than this could approval given to the views of a political Teader who is reported—as Mr. Sun Fo was reported yesterday—to be appealing to his followfers to "sink petty differences and strive together in the spirit of sincerity and justice." Other passages in the new Minister's Speech were less conciliatory but presumably allowance has be made for the perfervid atmosphere of the occasion. No doubt Mr. Sun Fo and his colleagues realise that they have a stiff task ahead. it seems unfortunate that more emphasis is laid on the wrongs suffered at the hands of the Japanese than on the prospect of finding, for the present difficulties, a peaceful solution—to which China equally with Japan is committed. Continuance of the present hostility between the two nations is disastrous to both. Japan is when the time is appropriate for his labour, may ascribe much blame to those who refused to take the opportunity of thrashing out the various economic pro: before they wre carried them into. a mutually destructi contest.
Government which sought to win confidence and earn approval would at once endea-territory nominally under the sovereignty of China, it is hardly politic to encourage' discussions tending to range from the purely and domestically personal to the justly and externally aggresblems arising from the railway Hier dante in Manchuria with [out © guaka this issue your to make this issue clear to clear Lolaive, In auch a case the Plenary the special emissary whom Japan posaitie " temporary despatched to that country Was popularity.
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