"However, the Pact prescribes that if one of the High Contrating Powers should become the objective of military operation on the part of a third country, the other will keep neutrality using words with broader meaning than war admitted 4n international law."
"Therefore, I believe it is not wrong that I think the Neutrality Pact between Japan and the Soviet is applicable to the China affair, in which Japan is the objective of the military operation of China...
"If it is true, as reported by newspapers, that the Chinese planes destroyed by Japanese planes were Soviet-made, it is impossible to say that the Soviet Government has nothing to do with it, though the planes might have been donated to Chungking by civilians...
"The Soviet Government declares that it has never aided the Chungking regime, and we hope that it is tre...
"The disposal of the China Affair is the centre of gravity of Japanese diplomacy...
"If the words of Mr, Stalin, who said that provided Japan and the Soviet ce-operate they will have nothing to fear in the world are true, we heartily hope the Soviet Union will immediately withdraw from the group of nations aiding" Chiang Kai-shek, and ce-operate with Japan in disposing of the China problem "—Reuter,
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