Chungking, Dec. 21. TAPEN has no ground for raising any objection to British and American loans to China, declared a Foreign Office spokesman today in commenting on the statement made on Monday by Mr. Hachiro Arita, Japanese Foreign Minister, to foreign correspondents.
"ven if the American and British loans were intended as political gestures against Japan, as Mr, Arita thought they were," added the spokesman, "such gestures were justified and represent the minimum action open to the Powers in view of Japan's treaty-breaking activities and destruction of foreign interests in Chin:
After pointing out that the Japanese proposal for tripartite bloc of Japan, Manchoukuo and China, or a "new order" in East Asia, is aimed at the eaisblishment of Japan's hegemany in East Asia, the spokesman declared that such a proposal isin direct conflict with foreign rights and interests in Far East.
"A. realy. cannot be considered inapplicable," "said. the spokesman, simply because of the violations by one of ite signatories."—Reuter. lar policy in the Western hemisphere, it not inevitable that East Asia should, as the Foreign Minister, Mr. Arita, justly remarked, seck to create 1 bloc that will not only be strong. Dut self-sufficient the "Asahi" declared recalling the statement made on Monday by Mr. Hachiro Ari "Of the Powers thst try to themselves of every opportunity at their disposal to protest and complain against the establishment of a, new order in East Asia, not a few.
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