Mr, Eugene Chen Thinks U.S. Should Step in with War Debt Cancellation as Price of Help Advaneine the Chinese submisthe NinePower Treaty and. the sion that the vital interests of the Kelloge Pact were intended to United States demand the active become operative and that, in amd positive intervention of the consequence, it is a matter *of United States in the conflict creat national honour and good faith on Japan's military action [the part of the United States to against China, Mr, Eugene Chen, see that Japan resolutely respects former Minister of Foreign Affairs, her obligations and the sanctity of on Mar, 26 issued @ lengthy stale: her agreements under the Treaties. obliga in he Sinowapanese ment on "American rights
conflict' amt ce, geten, 2 suyun ne oe gin "Mr, Chen urges that America should "demand. in return for the ars toe Faget cancellation of the war debts. tha vested France, shall co-'Treaties—to shsleting' Chinato secure Japanese state with the United States in
observance of the Nine-Power and (b) if, in what manner she Treaty, amd carry out general dis-means to assist China to secure wrmaient which shall ensure inter-Tapanese observance of the Trea-mid peace in the ties, "Apart from material assistfnce not involving actual warfare, within the power" and. com:
Japan and Manchuria Intervene decisively in support of tence of the United States Examing the situation from many aspects and considerations, Mx. the Treaties"
ing, America is bound to a take believes that, willing or use fis. Chen perceives such a power in the war debts due to America a Tening part in' the task of and proceeds to. sta preventing Japan from breaking: up "It is, therefore, both a right and the international system of the a duty' of Ametiea. to demand Far East which rests on the doc-Feturn for the eancellat trine of the Open Door, the Nine-Power Treaty" and the Kellogg Pact. He rejects the thesis that operate with the Ut Manchuria is a matter of "life and first, in actively assisting Ching to secure Japanese observance of the Nine-Power Treaty and, second-Soviet Russ ly, to carry out general disarmament on a scale and in a manner which shall ensure international Soviet Russi got alone among the jew of the actual batlons of Europe and the Americas viet policy in. Manchuria, But'as betnecrt the. states and states, "Ever since, its copies of Far Asia onthe one tions in 1919 and "1920, Soviet and and Japan. on the. eter, Russia has. repuc ied_not only in ite effective and entire diser but in leeds the Tsurdom's ment of japan in Te must hey of territorial agg sion in insisted upon, a. condition "of manchuria. And the present writer a position to state that had p" fen of dianrniament, envisa the civilised rind as a neces ti the leadership of the Kuomintang there isto Bea Revolution. not fatally faltered in tion the life 1927, the retrocession to China. of nations, all Russian rights and interests in Devious need' than "either" Srench Northern. Manchuria would have Military "disarmament er Brith been an accomplished fact to-day. naval disarmament Whist there And itis not at all idle to speculate Gan be no true peace Wnless France might have come to pass if Sout thatthe "same thing and "Brita brentoally" dieers, these countries ave in truth modern Manchuria had escaped the grip of States, brondbased on" demorerasy Japan in 1005 and remained under fand the. liberties which itis the the loose hands of a dying Tsardom fashion in some quarters to deride, then on the eve of its fast decade They can ordinarily "be trusted of Hire" joven as America con be trusted War with America tuo great power soberly and with Mr, Chen continues that it rine. Not so Japan. notorious that all attempts to aval dec-induce Japan's surplus population ington "Confer settle in Manchuria, have' failed fence, Japan has' been alle £0 eapowing to some physical or psychical fre' naval predominance in Far quality in the Japanese make-up.
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