The "Asahi" newspapers said they did not expect a sudaen reversal of the British policy towards Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, but remarked what the delicate nuance of who British attitude towards the Nanking admunistration could be discerned in the address of Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Japan, on Maren 23; the radio broadcast of Mr, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty on March 30; and the editorial of "The Times" on the seme day.
A new tendency in France could also be seen in the editorial published on Sunday by "Lo Temps" stressing the future importance of the new central regime in China and drawing attention to the welcome extended by Japan to participation by third Pow-em in the economic development of est Asia, "Asahi" papers said.
"While the attitude of the Powers supporting Gen, Chiang Kai-shek had shown little change, the newspapers continued, it was regarded as doubtful "how long they will be able to persist in this unnatural attitude" continuing to recognize a regime "that barely ekes out an existence" in the south-western corner of China without acknowledging the central administration in Nanking which controls the vital portions of the country, "Humouring" the U.S.
The course Britain and France could take in China was clear, but both nations were endeavouring hard to humour tne United States, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" declared, Time, it added, would "settle everything regardless of the American attude", pointing to the cases of Manchoukuo, Spain, and Ethiopia in which the United States have persisted in not recognizing the altered situation.
The "Nichi-Nichi" chain of newspapers also referred to the case of Manchoukuo which was developing soundly in spite of not being recognized by the United States. A "more bitter experience", these newspapers predicted, would be in store for the United States in the case of Nanking.
The "Nichi-Nichi" chain also cut cized Mr. Hull's statement for its alleged contravention of the assurances given the Japanese, Government by Washington through the U.S, Ambassador, Mr. Joseph C. Grew, that the United States Government was ready io enter into conversations with Japan in a constructive spirit.—Domei.
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