New York, Jan. 24.
Mr. Tv, Soong described China as Jan ally of the United States "holding your ramparts in the Pacific"
Speech to the' China Society of America today.
'By engaging Japan in a long and exhausting war, destroying over million Japanese' soldiers, and containing another million and a quarter, which could otherwise be used to ssu port their German and Italian all the Chinese resistance has been, and will continue to be of value to the democratic cause," he declared.
"Peace now would only be a temporary armistice with all the adi vantages accruing to Japan. As the Sino-Japanese collet Is part of the general struggle, enduring peace can only come as part of a general world settlement." Mr. 'T. V. Soong con-
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