What Is the government's future policy toward Japan?
A—Afler the outbreak of the Lukouchiao incident, I definitely declared in w speech in Kuling that this would make the limit of our endueance. I also listed four minimum conditions for the settlement of the Incident, These conditions have-been made known to the nation in part jcular, and to the world In general, [There is absolutely no possibility of changing or revising them.
T said then that we would not seek war but would meet war when forced upon us. "Since we have arrived at the limit of endurance," how could We consider the state of affairs In Pel-ping and Tientsin as a local question and let the Japanese military encroach pon our territorial and. sovereign Integrity, or let them set up another Puppet regime?
The Government has the responsibility of defending national territory and sovereign rights and. of protecting the people. The only thing to do now Is to put into opera lon its comprehensive plan to lead the entire nation in a struggle for the protection of the nation to the very biter end, Henceforth, absolutely no local settlement is possible We must remember that the four minimum conditions T laid down form a deciding point of our existence or extinction, Our troops have not suffered any great reverses, and even if they should so suffer, we would be determined to perish with the state and never would we compromise or sur-Fender. and inalterable, namely, no territory must be lost and no sovereign rights impaired.
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