Claims have been made in Tokyo that a resounding triumph has been scored for the "new order in Asia," and the press in Berlin has gleefully emphasized the supposed humiliation of Great Britain, declares the "Daily Telegraph" today. These are unfortunate but inevitable examples, he adds, of the new technique in diplomacy by tirade overlapping sober negotiation.
Though there have been certain misgivings lest perhaps these tales of British "surrender" might be true, the newspaper asserts, there is no justification for them in the official statement or in Mr. Chamberlain's brief commentary on it.
Abandonment of the Chinese currency, withdrawal of the British Ambassador to China, stoppage. of supplies sent through Burma, and recognition of "puppet" administrations (Continued on page 8)
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