The Tokyo Foreign Office spokesman's reference to the situation in North China gives a welcome note of moderation in expressing the Japanese Government's views, Maintaining @ desire to exorcise "antic Japanese" feelings from Chinese sentiment in the North, the spokesman agrees that Chinese soldiers may properly harbour pro-Chinese views. That at least is a point gained and may be useful to General Shang Chen, to whom a fine tribute is paid, in taking up his arduous duties in Tientein. The situation is, however, regarded by the Foreign OMice spokesman as "still not _a diplomatic matter properly speaking." There again he seems to be on sound ground, for diplomacy appears little to enter into Colonel Sakai's philiosophy. judging from the interview which he gave to Rengo on Sunday. After referring to. the "lukewarm and insincere attitude of the Nanking Government" the Colonel capped his observations by remarking that as there were "no signs of a change in General Chiang Kai-shek's two faced policies," the "basic question" remained "open", Cryptic though the remark is, it' shows clearly that Colonel Sakai is not a diplomat and therein the spokesman at Tokyo is abundantly vindicated. Whether etijquette elsewhere encourages @ military attache-to pass public judgment on the head of a friendly foreign government is a matter for specul
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