The Archive · 1941

On Japan's Policy Towards U.S.S.R

Dr. Koo Comments

London, July 4.

Wellington Koo, the newly-arrived Chinese Ambassador to Lon-asked. Japan hag had overmuch trouble already with her connection shek had threatened to shoot the next bearer of peace overtures from Japan, declared: "Whatever the truth in that, it expresses the feeling of the Chinese people that China is at war and will stay in till the last, Having gone so far and suffered so much, there is not one Chinese, high or low, favouring compromise with Japan, now that world conditions are turning in China's favour".

The Chinese envoy was amazed at the "tranquil, orderly appearance of London", and said that everything appeared normal, well arranged and well supplied. with public se.rvices going on as usual and no one seeming the least agitated or suffering incon-convenience.

This is a totally different mental picture from that formed abroad from reports of air raids, "One ig all the more impressed, London", Dr. Koo, declared. "by constrating' it with Vichy where life is uneasy, supplies short and the atmos-ar Phere full of a sense of trouble, suspense and anxiety."

Dr. Koo expressed the opinion that er: Vichy would not follow other coun-with Marshal Petain", "whose position is one of intolerable difficulty." time being in Vichy.

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