The Archive · 1934

NANKING ENVOY RAPS JAPAN

Dr. Alfred Sze's Warning on Tokyo's Desires New York, July 10, Japan's Far Eastern policies were vigorously criticized, by the Chinese Minister at Washington, Dr. "Alfred Sze, in an article signed by the diplomat and published to-day in the "North American Review?

The Minister voiced a warning that Japan desires further territory fon the Asiatic mainland and is merely awaiting @ favourable opportunity to fulfil the desire.

"Japan," wrote the Minister, "is still dissatisfied by her Far Eastern Gonaueris, and is'merely awaiting Monroe Doctrine was bitterly attacked by Dr. Sze, who declared th Japan's policies in respect to Asia has little in common with the doctrine enunciated by President Monroe and which, for more than century. the United States Government has applied in Latin America, The Monroe Doctrine of the United States." Dr. Sze wrote, "ig based on the principle of self-defence, whereas Japan. in her policy for Asia demands the right to seize additional territory."

"It Japan needs preferential commercial treatment, she considers her= Self justined in taking it at the point of bayonets"

Referring to the Japanese political system under which the Ministers of War and Navy must be officers of their respective arms of the military service, and under which they are responsible directly to the Emperor, the article declared that the lack of ordinary civil authority over the Army and Navy made Japanese policy particularly dangerous.

'A nation organized like Japan," the author asterted, "is always menace to international peace."

China's determination to resist gression was emphatically express ed. "China will never surrender an inch of her territory nor any of her sovereign rights under stress of military force, which she is doter-ied to resist to the best of her the article sald—United

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