As showing the spirit of defeatism. from their point of view now reigning in certain circles here, the following story is not without interest. A certain member of the Provisional government told a foreign fremd at a dinner party quite récent-Japanese friends that the Wang ly, that he had been warnHig, M8 Ching-wei business was all nonsense and, that if they really were Out tö establish a government for the whole of China, then the only thing for them to do was to come to terms with Cen, Chiang Kai-shek. One may be allowed to doubt, whether the speaker really did use such language to the Japanese, but his statement derives significatice from the fact that one year or more ago he was defending to the sime fórélgher his acceptance of a post in the local government on the plea that Gen. Chiang was finished, and that one must make the best of a bad job.
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