Mr, Chen attacked "the fumbling indecision and diplomatic. hu mili tion" of the peace Powers, which envisaged the operations of the war Powers as a fortuitous series of diplomatic incidents and local wars, unconnected and unrelated.
He implored President Roosevelt to ponder over the fact that Japanese guns and aeroplanes "have already killed 300,000 Chinese, while 30,000,000 Chinese are now without shelter, and thousands of Chinese mothers are giving birth to babies in the streets."
Italy and Germany, he asserted, were not ready to start a world war before 1940. Therefore nothing could be feared in Europe if Great Britain and France intervened in the Far East.
This, Mr, Chen added, would even be more effective if Great Britain, France, Soviet Russia and the United States combined and categorically demanded the cessation of Japan's "butchery" and her attendance at a congress of nations at Washington to settle affairs of the Far East—
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