"I imagine Lord Halifax would agree," he said, "that the controversy which is raging in the terrible war in the Far East is precisely the same controversy as that raging—fortunately not by war—at this moment it, Europe."
The broad question which needed settling, he asserted, was: "Is it legitimate for a country to make aggression on another in order to carry cut what it regards as its material, or even political, interests; ought there to continue the fight of war on the part of any sovereign state?"
"That is the real issue," Lord Cecil said, "and it is being fought out in the Far East. The Japanese invasion of China is being carried out with a ruthlessness which must be the subject of admiration for a certain school in Germany, but which would be even impossible in Europe nowadays.
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Tokyo, June 13.
Japan was determined to effect a thorough solution of the settlement and concession question in China, and prepared for the "worst eventuality" that might arise, Major-Gen. Teiichi Suzuki, Director of the Political Affairs Bureau of the Asia Development Board, declared yesterday.
Officials of the board have remained silent on developments at Tientsin and yesterday's declaration by Major-Gen. Suzuki was his first on the subject.
Should Be Returned "Concessions and settlements had their origin in the disorderly conditions in China," Major-Gen. Suzuki declared, "and therefore, now that there is being established complete new order under the new regimes, I believe that they should be returned to China, "On the contrary, the British authorities on the spot do not understand the nature of the matter, and since the outbreak of hostilities they have adopted an attitude which seems to aim at the disturbance of peace and order in the concessions and settlements by harbouring malcontents and letting them persist in destructive movements which hamper the establishment of a new economic order.
"Obstruction of a new order not only is a hostile action toward a new China but an unpardonable action against Japan.
"And Japan, which is committed to the construction of a new East Asia, must eradicate obstructive actions against the creation of a new order in the concessions and settlements.
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