"To the Editor of the "Nonru-CuixA Dairy News"
Sim—Herewith is enclosed a copy of the letter which we recently sent to. the athletic bodies of various countries, urging them to adopt the Proposal made by ihe British League of Nations Union to boycott the next World's Olympic Games scheduled to be held in Tokyo in 1940.
"We wonder if you will consider it advisable to give it space in your esteemed paper.
Lu Kwo The National Association For National Salvation Hankow, Feb, 7.
Sirs,—The Chinese people deeply ap-"El asia whowe have snow towards preciate me syinpatny which your peo-China in her hour of ordeal and su-Me which the Japanese
Union made lei approval of tne world. We nave accordingly asi National Auuetic xeaerauon to appeal 1o the athletic bodies of you ana of the various other nations, io adopt the reported that the next meeting of me anternaüonal Olympic Committee wu be neid in Cairo On March 10 to discuss and approve Plans ior the next Olympic Gaines in However, we fervently hope ipa. the world wil re-tnat the athletic bodies of all peace-gene by de Betton ie League or Nations Union. the reason Sands or innocent Women, and children.
We trust, therefore, that you will man, whatever that may be, behind high tariff walls. So Italy decided to get her own colony, her own flag, and her own currency circulating in it. She decided on Ethiopia because there was an old treaty between her and Italy, and also because there wad nowhere else to go. Apparently, tne conquest of Ethiopia was a violation of international law of such stupenduous and unusual magnitude as to provoke 2, mobilization of public opinion which had not been seen at the time of the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, or is not seen even to-day.
What else was there to do? If the British Empire, which is the strongest, oldest, biggest organization in the World to-day wants to lead the world, it must solve the world's problems in a practical way, otherwise everybody will try to solve it in his own. That is what leadership means. People seem to want to eat, in spite of any barrage of propaganda, frowning from Downing Street, and disapproval from ti Archbishop of bury.
The Ethiopian war is over. But Italian foreign trade has received a serious blow from. sanctions. Hostility in London makes Italian trading even harder, The Mediterranean is a dangerously small sea, in which any nation feels uncomfortable when threatened. What can Italy da against the might of the British liant Broadcast propaganda from Bar, perhaps, that will reach a few wire-ess sets in Egypt and Palestine, Try and make friends with discontented politicians here and there along the shores of the Mediterranean. That is what Italy is doing. What has England done, what was the British Government directly responsible for, in the attempt to wreck italian unity, starve her people, start internal dissension, provoke discontent amd revolution, in one of the most critical moments of her national life, when she was engaged in a foreign war? Lets weigh the Bari broadcasts in one hand and the mobilization of world public opinion, the devastation of Italian financial and industrial life, the boycott, the false news, in. the other, Let me close reminding you that mare nostrum is a figure of speech, an old Roman saying, and that it does not mean that we think the Mediterranean is all ours. Just as toa will. rive the "white races" vessels, and who have openly deciared from moe Very venue of the next
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