London, Apr. 24.
Mr. Quo Tai-chi, Chinese Ambassador, addressing the British Association for International Understanding today, said leadership in the Ear East inevitably falls on China by reason of her vast area, population and, ever more, her culture and national genius for development in modes of peace.
"I can entertain no facile optimism as regards redemption of the Japanese people within a practicable measure of time from the domination of the military caste with its programme of hegemony in East Asia and mastery over the western Pacific areas," Mr. Quo said.
China had an important part to play in Anglo-American relations because the strategic and commercial interests of Britain and the United States were parallel in the Far East, he added.—Reuter.
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