To the Editor of the "Nowri-Cutna Datty News"
Su—With your leaderette entitled Uneasy Europe" in today's issue of! the "North-China" few will quarrel. As you say, the Rome-Berlin axis is hot yet contributing its share towards improvement of the present deplorable situation, In fact T should be very grateful if anyone would name any single contribution to Peace made since its formation by any member of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis. 1 should also be glad if either yourself or one of your readers would explain, in easily under standable terms, the precise meaning, it any, of the term "general appease: ment," now said to represent the foreign policy of the British Government. In dealing with such an ex-Pression as "general surrender" one knows where one stands, and to my mind this latter term, while no doubt coarse in the delicate ears of the diplomatic fraternity, represents with simple clarity the foreign policy of, the British Government during the past seven years. But perhaps I miss the point, One other small matter troubles my dreams, and here again a little instruction would be much appre-lated. If, as is commonly believed, Great Britain's refusal to Join France in "defending Czechoslovakia was due to military weakness, why 1s no effort made to replace the persons in high position responsible for this weakness by others of greater ability? Or are politicians and their friends immune from the consequences of their folly?
Shanghai, Dee. 5.
Nor Horrrut.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.