Answering questions on Soviet-Nanking relations in the light of the neutrality pact between Moscow and Tokyo. Mr. Wang said: "For the past several years we have repeatedly pointed out that it is one thing to be anti-Comintern and quite another to be on friendly terms with the Soviet Union."
He said he was convinced there was no real ce-operation between Chungking and the Chinese Communists: although the two factions were continuing their resistance "gainst Japan there was no evidence of what might be termed true collaboration.
He said the Nanking Government had adopted towards Chungking an attitude of "great patience and great expectation" in the hope that Chungking would eventually realize the situation existing in China and "make common cause in endeavouring achieve the rehabilitation of Chi and reconstruction of East Asi "Ignorant" Persons Although there were now still a handful of ignorant persons willing to act as accomplices in sinister fluences, the great majority of Chinese were gradually coming to recognize the necessity of peace between China and Japan and the possibility of its materialization, he added.
Mr. Wang read přepared replies to advance questions. He spoke in Chinese and an assistant read prepared English versions of the replies. Mr. Wang deviated but slightly from previous assertions, He expressed sympathy for Indian Nationalists and urged all Asiatic peoples to shake oft foreign influences. "Reuter.
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