IOr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S, said in a speech last night that after 43 months of fighting China is as determined and strong e Japan is becoming whole international situation," Dr, Hu declared, "seems to have turned in China's favour."
The noted scholar said disbanding of the New Fourth (Communist) Army had been essential to milit discipline.
Japanese losses in killed and permanently disabled men were about 1,000,000, he declared. The Japanese financial position had been weakened, ko said, but there was "no possibility of internal revolution in Japan—United Press.
That point appears to be the chief obstacle to M. Laval's immediate acceptance of Marshal Petain's proposal, To the Wilhelmstrasse M. Laval remains "the most eminent personality of Franco-German collaboration." To M. Laval himself, outside the question of personal prestige, there is the question of whether, after having brought collaboration thus far, he would be willing to step he war, it was believed.
If the Greeks professed themselves to be unable to expel the British from Crete, diplomatic sources assumed Germany would accept this, but would demand immediate withdrawal of the British from the Greek mainland—
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