The Archive · 1939

A PEDESTRIAN

The Delayed Pact:

Strange Bedfellows Yo the Editor of the "NortH-Cuina Dany News"

Sim,—You are to be congratulated on the many leaders on the subject of the projected pact between Britüin-France-Russia which you have published for the benefit of your subscribers, Anent the coalition of anti-aggression powers, Mr, O. M. Green, in an article 1o your journal, states:

There has never been so striking an example of the whole ' nation wanting something and the Government apparently holding back. wny there has been this long delay 35 a complete mystery.

Permit me once again to hazard the opinion that Mr, Chamberlain symbolizes the protector of capitalism.

In recalling the instances when Czechoslovakia was annexed, Albania raped and China invaded by Japan, I feel convinced that Mr. Chamberlain under the camouflage of an appeasement policy, had in his uppermost mind the preservation of capitalism.

In viewing the suggested united front from this angle, it can readily be understood the procrastination of the alliance, as it is universally agreed that communism and capitalism are not good bed-fellows.

Shanghai, June 23.

RANK AND Fire.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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