Senator Thomas said that Ko long ago had urged gradual settlement of the Sino-Japanese war by progressive mediation of individual difference. A board of American mediators agreeable to both China and Japan, by tackling one problem at a time, could gradually liquidate the conflict on a realistic basis and restore equilibrium in the Far East, he said.
However, any mediation proposal which did' not before hand concede the equality of Tokyo and Chungking was doomed to failure, Senator Thomas said. The question of Japanese recognition of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek could not be the subject of mediation, he said, ' Likewise, mediation could not concern itself with Japanese willingness or unwillingness to forego a southward push,
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