Dr. Kurt Bloch, economist and temporary member of the Institute of Pacific Relations Secretariat told the University of Virginia Public Affairs today that it appeared likely that China would win the war.
He also predicted that the British Empire, the United States and the Philippines would ce-operate in the building of a new progressive Far Fast.
Japanese aggression has only strengthened China, he asserted.
Even if Japan is victorious, she will lose in peace because Europe will be able to dictate its own terms for loans and credits, he alleged.
The granting of independence by the United States in 1933 to the Philippines was widely interpreted as the beginning of the American retreat from the Pacific, but now "there is a strong tendency to revise the independence act and strengthen naval armaments," he said.—United Press.
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