Major-General Muto, who represented the Japanese army in the Anglo-Japanese talks on Tientsin issues last summer, said in his reply:
"To surmount the emergency confronting Japan, we must have a common guiding principle. As General Count Hisaichi Terauchi declared some time ago while he was War Minister, all kinds of liberalism based on individualism must be set aside in dealing at present with international relations, "A glance at the current international situation shows there is scarcely a nation that has not adopted nationalistic ideas and conceptions looking to national security. With regard to economic matters, the economic policies pursued by many countries are also based on imperialistic ideology. Some have gone so far as to embrace the policy of so-called bloc economy.
"I believe that we must struggle for the benefit of the nation rather than for the benefit of the individual even in peace-time economic warfare, Japan today faces an emergency, and so the people must do everything in their power io pass through it successfully. In foreign countries, this sort of idea is called totalitarianism.
Direct telephone and wireless communication is to be established between Peiping and Nanking. A wireless office was opened in Peiping on March 22, and the telephone service, it is learned, will be put into operation in April.—Reuter.
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