Dr. Koo emphasized that for four years the Chinese Government has patiently tried to reach a peaceful settlement with Japan on outstanding questions, and the present conflict was the result, "for every act of concession and every gesture of conciliation on the part of China has been taken by Japan as a sign of fear and has led to more bullying end browbeating."
Dr. Koo said that the "perpetual dual diplomacy practised by Japan, rough the Japanese Foreign Office ud the Japanese Army, in her dealings with China, had convinced China of the danger and futility of Replying to the statement that the present occurrences had their origin in conditions peculiar to the Far Ecst, Dr. Koo said that the Chinese, for their part, did not see before them anything peculiar in the Far Eastern situation wu was Japan's s it methods of preserving peace in Asia by the armed invasion of peaceful China.
"Language of Treaty Breaker"
Whatever the conditions were and they were Japans own creation they were not beyond the purview of the Treaty, but were proper subject for discussion by the interested Powers.
Japan's open violation of her treaty obligations as embodied in the Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg Briand Pact?"
That was, he added, "the language of a Treaty-breaker who wished to impose upon the Conference a fait accompli.
The issues of the present conflict were not confined to the territorial and political integrity of China. The principle of respect for treaty obligations in the cause of peace, in which all nations rightly felt deep concern and interest, were at stake Dr. Koo said that China only asked to be left in peace and free from external aggression to pursue her tremendous task of political and economic reconstruction. The Nine-Power Treaty had assured her of this opportunity, and Japanese aggression had deprived her of it
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