The declaration continues:
The representatives of the abovementioned states also regard the hostilities and the situation they have brought about as matters inevitably of concern to the coun-, tries they represent and, more, to the whole world.
To them, the problem appears not in terms simply of the relations between two countries in the Far East but in terms of law and orderly processes, of world security and of world peace.
The Japanese Government has affirmed that in employing armed force against China it was anxious "to make China renounce her present policy,"
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Commons Statement Made by Lord Cranborne
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