Tokyo, Apr. 1.
new Nanking Kuomintang Government headed by Mr. Wang Ching-wei is as independent as the government of Manchoukuo, the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, told the press here today.
Asked whether Mr, Wang's government w: as independent as Manchoukuo, Mr, Suma replied, "T think so, since Manchoukuo is independent."
Mr, Suma, commenting on the statement by Mr. Cordell Hull, American Secretary of State, said the United States should awol developments in East Asia before refusing to recognize the new! Nanking regime, "The United States, said Mr.
Suma, "should be more patient, and should wait and sce developments before encouraging toward further resistance those elements which we are fighting."
Mx, Suma said that Mr. Hull's state~ ment represented the "natural atti-ile of the Americans toward the China. affair," but added that the statement contained three important points.
The first point, Mr. Suma saldcfs that Mr, Hull makes it clear that the American Government cannot recognize the new Nanking regime, but on the contrary recognizes. the Chungking Government with which Japan is in a state of hostilities.
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