Pars, Feb, 1.
An open letter to President Roosevelt was read by Mr. Eugene Chen, former Chinese Foreign Minister, at the University Club of Paris yesterday.
Mr. Chen argued that the Sino-japanese hostilities were part of a "world war" which had already begun in different parts of the world. The safest way to prevent a world war, he contended, was to help China while the anti-war Powers were still stronger than the war Powers, After an outline of the "imperial ambitions of the authoritarian states," Mr. Chen said it was obvious that new empires could only be founded on the break up of the British and French empires, the dismemberment of the allies of France in central and eastern Europe, the domination of the Arab world, the partition of the colonies of Belgium, Portugal and Holland, the conquest of China, and the expulsion of the United States as a naval power from the Pacific.
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