Stalin's Refusal to Meet Gen. Tatakawa Applauded The Chinese: press in Shanghai attaches so much importance to the denial from Moscow through Tass that Stalin will receive the new Japanese Ambassador to Moscow on October 26 (which report was given prominence on Monday in all leading Chinese dailies here) that two leading Chinese dailies here commented on the Japanese "dream" yesterday in long editorials, The "Chinese American Dally News" opined that the fact that Stalin had ordered the official Russian news agency to deny the Japanese report that he would receive the Japanese Ambassador was just like "cold snow from Siberia" splashed against Tokyo. The Japanese report was said to be a "one-sided" imagination, "But one cannot blame Soviet Russia for the callous act of denying the report because why should Stalin create a precedent by receiving the Japanese Ambassador when there is nothing extra-ordinary between Russia and Japan and when the Japanese news report itself reveals that Stalin has never received a Japanese Ambassador?"
The "National Herald" states that ihe Japanese Ambassador to Moscow will achieve nothing and that Stalin's refusal to receive him is but the beginning of the trend of the story.
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