"Therefore, when we view things from his standpoint, he cannot betray his own statement and if ever he should go back on it, the peace movement as well as the establishment of the new regime would collapse.
"At this point, I want to put this question to the' Government: what will be the framework and the practical contents of the proposed settlement of the China affairs? I shall repeat the reply: full respect of China's sovereignty, which means non-interference into the future domes tie and foreign: policies of China.
"It ever we should try anything like interference, the sovereignty of China Would be immediately infringed upon. We are not to take territory, not to ask for indemnity.
"I don't know how much Japan has spent on the China affair, but regarding the military expenditures which we approved in this hous they amount to approximately '¥.12,000,000,000. I cannot say what the grand total will be: perhaps twenty milliards, perhaps thirty more. Nevertheless, for this military expenditure we have not been able to extract even the tenth of a sen from China, and every sen will have to be borne by the people of Japan Tt will be the burden of future generations of this nation.
Japan Has No Trade Monopoly
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.