The announcement said the Chiese Government noted with satisfaction the statement of the British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who declared in the House of Commons this week that it would be impossible to change the policy of the British Government at. the Aietation of any other Power. The Chinese Government also was said to be encouraged by Mr. Chambe lain's declaration that the Arita Craigie agreement reached in Tokyo did not connote any change in Bue tain's policy in China—a policy based on "treaty and. justice aswell os Britain's own rights and interests to which she has "heretofore so. consistently adhered and carried out."
The announcement said Britain "need scarcely be reminded of the pledge she made under various League resolutions to retrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's pow er of resistance and thus increasing her difficulties in the present conflict sand algo to make all measures of ald to China as effective as possible."
China, he said, was in no way! alarmed by the attempts of her' enemy to make use of traitors and to seek her isolation from nations friendly to her.
"There can be absolutely no talk of our being isolated," he declared, Jrwhile the vast majority of the [peoples of the world uphold Justice
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