The new strategy, he continued, had helped the Chinese to regain considerable initiative of action, and had enabled them to strike against the enemy in different sectors at the same time.
Dr. Koo, pointed out that the Japanese had failed in their operations designed to cut the two principal routes of supply from abroad.
He commented favourably on the action of American aircraft companies, which had all responded to the advice of the United States Government last July to refrain from selling more aeroplanes to Japan, with the result that exports had stopped.
In reply to Dr. Koo's appeal, Lord Halifax said that the "eloquence with which the distinguished representative of China has pleaded his country's cause must, I think, have moved us all once again not only to feelings of compassion for the terrible sufferings inflicted upon the Chinese people, but also to admiration for the fortitude and courage they have displayed in bearing them."
"For more than two years now, he proceeded, "the world has been forced to witness the spectacle of a conflict in which all the resources of
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