Asked whether the loan to China coming on top of the abrogation of the U. S-Japan Trade Treaty. of 1911, would lead to a spontaneous anticAmerican feeling in China, the spokesman said that it was at present hard to conceive such an explosion of feeling but he could not predict What future changes and cireum= stances will precipitate, Public opin-fon governs actions. of governments, hho continued, and the same applies pan. Tt' Is possible In future sentiments of the Japanese towards the United States may be aggravated because of incidents which may arise in the future, It goes without saying, "however, that' the Japanese authorities do not desire such a deterioration of relations, he added, Referring to Finland again, the spokesman said that in stating the mistake of the people in the United States in regarding Finland and China in the same light, he would like to point out that ' the degrees of patriotism displayed in the two countries were vastly different, Leaders in Chungking, he said, since the days they have been in power, have amass-huge fortunes and their deposits abroad were beings increased from day to day. In this respect there ix avast difference between the two countries 'There are Chinese who are patriots, he said, but they are being betrayed by those in high places in Chungking, who profit financially by the suff ings of their own countrymen. A correspondent then asked why' it hac taken two and a half years for the Chinese in the occupied areas to awaken to this thrill and in reply the spokesman said that the Chinese. in the occupied areas are gradually bee coming conscious of this state of affairs in Chungking but were not articulate enough to express them= solver on the subject, Do you believe that the Chinese officials in the occupied aveas are ore honest than those in Chums King?" asked the correspondent.
"Yes, definitely," was the reply.
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