London, June 29.
"Whatever assurances Japan may have given as to her intention to respect the Open Door policy in China, the obvious truth remains that the door is being kept open not for the entry of foreign interests but only for their exit," declared Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to France, in the course of a lecture, entitled "Open Door and World Peace," delivered before a large and distinguished gathering at the Royal Society in London yesterday.
Lord Lytton, chairman of the Commission bearing his name which proceeded to China in 1932 to investigate the Mukden incident, presided.
Note only had China's sovereignty been encroached upon, Dr. Koo said, but inevitably, with this encroachment, "flagrant acts in contravention of the principle of the Open Door have taken place."
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