The Archive · 1940

Change in British Policy In Far East Denied

Commons Told Government Willing to Improve Relations With Japan; Nine Power Pact Upheld

London, Apr. 3.

TAIN will not recognize the new Chinese Government at Nanking organized by Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, reaffirmed in the House of Commons today.

Following the lead of the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, who announced on March 30 that the United States would not recognize Mr. Wang's regime, Mr. Butler in his announcement indicated that Britain would continue to recognize the Chiang Kai-shek Government at Chungking as the legal Chinese Government,

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