Mme Sun Yat-sen Supported To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cutxa Dai News"
Si—May I be allowed to voice the opinion that there is a difference of view among your readers regarding the significance of Madame Sun Yat-sen's public statement, which is ensured In your yesterday's leader-erle as showing "confusion. of thought"? "You saw "confusion" in this statement because of urging the cessation of humiliating negotiations with Japan and adoption of a policy Jor nation-wide armed resistance to Japanese aggression, while calling at same time for improvement of the people's livelihood, "The Chinese Government has certainly tried "to avoid complication in external affairs" in face of Japanese aggression since 1931, which is according to you the only' right policy. How far China succeeded to make her "exter-pal affalts" less complicated during those years is very well stated in Jyour own editorial on the day following your charge against Madame Sun Yoi-sen's statement because of "confusion of thought."
In this editorial you are rightly recalling Japan's responsibility' for the "smuggling scandal" and "exterfal pressure" on the Customs' preventive authorities, Your editorial says:
The Japanese mil have thrown Sault a erie Tier Gh tat Gee the patrone of what Ys nothing ior than'an et hoo smugeler's paradise...
You continue with the charge of '"flagrantly flouting the authority of the Maritime Customs" by promulgating a customs tariff according to the Japanese needs, all this being among the "developments of the wantung Army's Manchurian adventure." In the same passage we are told that "protests have been ac~ cordingly lodged by the various powers concerned," and that "they will have to be repeated."
To my opinion (and I am sure this to be the opinion shared by many lof your readers) such protests would be only effective if backed up by the etermination of the Chinese Government and the whole Chinese people to resist Japan's military pressure and her invasion of China's territory, and to recover the terrltories taken from China by Japanese military force since 1931. Only diplomatic protesting without a policy of armed resistance will not do it, 85 Japan is not even answering to Chinese official protests against he continuous military "manceuvel the district of Tientsin and Peipin inst the military airplanes flying over Shantung, Hopel, not to speak of Charhar and Suiyuan, as, well as against her actual role in invading Saiyuan with "Mongol "and Manchoukuo troops,"—all these acts of ogeression aiming at establishment of Japan's military domination over the whole Yellow River Valley. "Here in Shanghai we are witnessing, too, how the whole Hongkew section of the International' Settlement is open tthe Japanese armed troops and hher_manqsuvres in preparation for Japan's naval and military control of this city, The tale of Manchuria and Inner Mongolia and " considerable part of North China as well os all the other aggressive acts of Japanese milliary show that there is hho other way for China as to defend hersd and to make the policy of nation-wide armed resistance to aggression the all-dominating policy of Chinese Government and people. The statement by Madame Sun Yat-sen fand the other signatories of Chinese rational prominence is a proof of China's growing determination to this end, which spirit is also reflected in latest speeches of the Generalis-39 and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Its unjust to see it Madame Sun Yat-sen's statement an appeal for "aggressive gation against Japan." This is a plain reversion of the established fact that China is facing continuous action" to fight off and to defend Hiersele against an aggressor and invader? Nor is it "confusion" on the side of Madame Sun Yat-sen if she is urging the improvement of the lot of the distressed rural and eily population while calling for armed resist ance against the aggressor. To defend China under the present conditions the primary means in order "to set free beneficent social activities on behalf of the people." The whole national economy of China is suffering because of aggression and Joss of important national territories, because of the smuggling orgy and the Japanese interference with the affairs fof the Chinese Government. All progress in unification of China, internal peace and reconstruction work is menaced and interfered with bs the aggressive policy of Jupues military Fascism. At such a critical situation all preparations for national defence must include, besides pure military preparations, an enthusiastic national drive for reconstruction of strategic important territories, under unrifed national leadership and with friendly foreign "assistance, It is obvious that Madame Sun Yat-sen's statement Is calling for such a combined policy of national. reconstruction and defence, and that to hee such policy has ample possibilities for amelioration of the people's lot, which would only become still more miserable if the aggressive forces are not prevented to continue In their destructive work, destructive to the national economy as well China's national existence, Therefore 1 venture to say that there is not any "confusion of thought" on the side of Madame Sun Yat-sen, "Your yesterday's leaderetic merely the evidence of a different viewpoint between you and Madame Sun Yat-sen (as well as also with a considerable part of Chinese and foreigners alike) regarding the critical situation for China's presence and fulure because of Japanese aggression: and regarding' China's national ability to defend herself. when she forced to armed resistance, Some Chinese and foreign observers are of the opinion, as stated in an editorial of this week's issue of the "China Weekly Review," that there is a "British Imperial disapproval American policy which favoured the development of China into a. strong, unified nation capable of defending LIG own territorial and administrative Independence." This view, however, is contradicted by many sign Jor British help and assistance towards unifteation of South and Central China and. the growing' friendship between Great Britain and the National Government at Nanking. Sir Frederic Leith-Rose stated at the annual banquet of the China Asso-lation in, London, according to the "NCDN." of Dec. 28, 1936:
Toe. afte a. disposition ith rites of patitien, nes of tea Foclat sentiment ahd the" broad. fea tiverlimpuier "which fare remouldinr T conclude by stating that it would be blindness not to see that the most important "creative impulses which are remoulding China to-day" are dominated by the rapidly growing determination to. national defence, of which the statement by Madame Sun Yat-sen ud the other simatories significant historical document, Feb, 20, this ieiver'the leading 3rt WMinay be studied
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