Tokyo, Mar. 24.
Vernacular newspapers today speculated editorially on the probable attitude that will be taken by various world Powers towards the reorganized National Government of China at Nanking following its inauguration on March 30.
Taking for granted that Japan will accord the new administration prompt recognition, the independent "Miyako Shimbun" described the British stand as problematical.
Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the newspaper stated, had recently replied to a question in the House of Commons that there was no change to the British Government's policy to continue to give recognition only to the Chungking regime. The daily, however, recalled that the British Government once had given virtual recognition to the regime of the late Marshal Chang Tso-lin and to the Canton Government, neither of which was a central administration, but with which London maintained contact approving them as competent local authorities.
Japan's immediate recognition of the new Government was more important than that of other Powers, the "Kokumin Shimbun, nationalist daily stated, The newspaper expressed itself dissatisüed with the reply given by Mr, Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, to an interpella. tion in the Diet yesterday, during which he said that Italy "probably would be the first Power to give the Nanking Government recognition, The next nation, Mr, Arita said, was likely to be Germany, but it was difficult to expect a ready recognition of the new administration by Britain and the United States,—Domel, 7 "Hollowest of Mockerles"
Washington, Mar. 24.
Tokyo's statement that the establishment of the new Chinese Government at Nanking would mean the restoration of China to the Chinese was described by the "Washington Evening Star" yesterday as "the hollowest of mockeries."
The newspaper stated in an editorial that the Japanese step in forming the new government "is a subterfuge which will deceive neither the unconquered factions of China nor the outside world.
"Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek still commands formidable forces capable of sustaining guerilla warfare," the newspaper said. "Japan's internal economic difficulties become increasingly difficult and her foreign relations with Britain, America and Russia are strained to the breaking point, "Among these three factors the possibility persists that before she plunges finally into the abyss of national bankruptcy and utter international discredit, Japan may seek an end to her undeclared war under conditions more or less tolerable to a nation which has so tenaciously resisted the invaders for nearly three years."—United Press.
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