London, Mar, 30, have been unofficially informed that the speech delivered by the Secretary of State for Foreign 'Affairs, Sir John Simon, in the House' of Commons on March 22, to which Dr, Lo Wen-kan, the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs, took' exception, was designed merely to note the possibili-concerning the future of Mar.
The Beitish Government, pointed out, mast the possibility of the new state in Manchuria seeking the recognition of the Foreign Powers. The Gover ment f thus free to act as cireumstances arise.
In the course of his speech, the Foreign Secretary touched upon the fact that the allegation that the new state in Manchuria had been set up by Japan was one that no. tone Was entitled to make except: on the principle that one was entitled to pass judgment without inquiry and in the face of denial. He urged his hearers to await the report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed by the League of Nations before coming to conelu-"sions prejudicial to either side, The new administration in Manchuria, he pointed out, was not} tone Which he should" think any] country was likely prematurely to recognise, for nobody recognised a government established in. such Circumstances without full inquiry into the circumstances, and Without being satisfied that it was responsible government which could really administer territory and. enter into relations with for~ eign Powers, and was a genuine the decision of th nts He emphasised the of Great Britain's refusing encourage or countenance what. might, be disregard or violation of China's territorial integrity under the Nine Power Treaty.
At the! same time, he stated that there: was.
no Taw. oF commonsense in ing that inno conceivable eircumstances could there ever be a Subdivision of an enormous area Tike Chnia. As an example he cited. that the raising in this province or that of an administration elaim-Ting independence was now a common place in Chinese histox To this part of the speech the Chinese government, according to statement by, Dr.' Lo Wen-kor took exception. The Foreign Minis ter, interviewed in Nanking, clafed that there was no combat gon between the independence movements in Manchuria and other, independence movements in China proper. Dr. Lo maintained that There was no analogy between the internal. political: developments China and the Manchurian inde~ pendence movement. which, he de-claved, was entirely engineered. by.
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