It also seemed to the spokesman that the reason for reports of decisions to ignore the new government was more a matter of sentiment which sprang from a feeling of sympathy for the Chungking Government, but in reality, he stressed, sentiment has to give way to facts and politics do not permit sentiment to overshadow real interests.
Asked if he knew what gave rise to this sentimental attitude, the spokesman answered that it can be attributed to the feeling that Chungking was the underdog and a lack of knowledge of real conditions in China. This bad been abetted by Chungking propaganda, he sai (Questioned as to whether the esta lishment of the new administration Nanking would have any effect on the question of the reopening of the Yangtze River, the Navy spokesman said that there was no relation between the new government and the proposed reopening of the waterway. Asked if the new government would have control over the Yangtze River, he said that that was a matter which could be better discussed after the inauguration of the Nanking government.
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