The Archive · 1939

Without Foreign Trade

Chinese Ambassa dor to Britain Makes Bold Claims for Coun try; Stronger Than Ever London, Apr. 21.

APAM could not continue her war against China for six months longer, without imports from t he West, declared Dr. Quo Tai-chi, the Chinese Ambassador, speaking g to the Manchester Reform Club today. Pressure against Japan by the boycott of her exports, Dr. Quo stated, and by an embargo on her imports, would bring the conflict to an end.

"Japan struts upon the stage of the East only by permi ion of the Powers whose hesitancies and preoccupations are her safeguard," he added. "She is the greatest sham of invulnerability that ever got away with sheer impudence in an anxious world."

China, Dr. Quo went on, had tried a policy of "accommodation" for six or seven years, until she realized that all she would ever get out of it was a "smile on the face of the tiger."

Appeasements, he declared, were only appetizers.

During the last 21 months, Japan: Position in the world had bee: brought close to that of a second-rat Power.

China, he said, touched bottom in

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