"Up to the present, no formal claims of this character have beer put forward by the Japanese Government, and if the issue is confined to the original subject of dispute, it ought to be possible to settle it by negotiation, "But I am bound to add that no British Government can tolerate that its nationals should be subjected to such treatment as we have heard of in Tientsin, and no British Government could submit to dictation from another Power as to its foreign policy. I trust, therefore, that we are right in supposing that no such intention is in the mind of the Japanese Government and that it has no intention of condoning the group acts of its soldiers and has no intention of challenging the rights and interests of the British people in China, "There is no revenue to be obtained from guns, bombing aeroplanes or even steel shelters," Mr. Chamberlain declared, "and some day, when this insane ' process of accumulating means for destroying one another comes to an end, all nations which have taken part therein will have to find other means of providing employment and the revenue necessary to meet the charges of their debts.
"The real tragedy of the situation seems to be that the future of Europe is being poisoned today by means of the propagation of false and unfounded suspicions.
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