The Archive · 1938

For Democracies"

London, Dec. 28.

"Light comes from the East," says Mr. Vernon Bartlett, the Independent Progressive M. P. for the Bridgewater Division of Somerset, in an article published in the "New Chronicle" today, entitled "Thr. Hopeful Signs For 1939.'

"The masses of Chinese migrating westwards across plains burned frown before advancing Japanese," he continues, "may yet, save us from another war. With hardly a slogan about democracy in their heads and still less experience of it in their Xves, they are fighting our battle, while Mr, Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, makes appleasing and ineffectual concessions.

"The failure of the British and French to see that greater quantities of arms reached the Chinese armies may in the long run be to the advantage of China. Chinese taxation per head has increased only thirty per cent. since the war began, while in Japan it has risen one hundred and sixty.per cent.

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