The Archive · 1939

Retreat to Interior

Due to the collapse in rapid success sion of Chinese economic centres the [Nationalist Government. has been Jobliged to recede further into the! interior' where China now must depend upon foreign sid for military' foods and funds for the continuation Of her resistance, Whichever way' Jshe may turn, China is doomed, he forecast, becatise her need to lean to the Teit has been demonstrated by the Maison between the Nationalist Gov-Jerument and the Communist party' since the outbreak of the conflict.

This conflict of necessities has placed not duly China but third Party Powers, at_erossroads, The withdrawal of support by the Jdemocratie countries, which are aiding {the Nationalist. Government, if the, Kuomintang accelerates its swing to the Toft is a foregone conclusion, the Jarticle insisted. This wellld leave Jonly the Soviet Union as an effective] laid. Such a development, the Hermit Gelieves, would not be favourable to the interests of China from the standpoint of her foreign relations.—Domel.

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