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have criticised their own govern- ment for failing to give the Brit-- ish Government adequate operation in the Far East, have. expressed, the opinion that the effect of the agreement is to- concede to Japan belligerent rights in the Far East. That this is as far from the truth as it could possibly be does not imply wilful misrepresentation. It is a judgment conscientiously formed: from a reading of the official formula, and that being so, the evil lies not in the manner in which the formula has been çon- strued, but in its own ambiguous. phraseology.

Assiduous Japanese and Axis: propaganda has contributed its share to the damage done; but it is more than ordinary propagan- da when the official spokesman of

Hong Kong, Friday, July 28, 1939-the Japanese Foreign Office

THE GOVERNOR

ON TOKYO

makes himself responsible for the statement that Mr. Cham- berlain's interpretation of the formula is his own; that Japan

His Excellency the Governor's will soon give an integral inter-- statement in Legislative Council pretation.

yesterday, dealing with the ap- Sir Geoffry's statement is. prehensions which have revealed reassuring, however. It being ac themselves as a result of the pre-cepted that the British Govern- liminary agreement reached in ment's policy is unchanged by Tokyo between the British Am-the agreement, its application to bassador and the Japanese For-the situation on the spot can be eign Minister, will command the awaited with equanimity. Noth closest attention. Not the less so ing is more certain that the because the occasions must be Japanese Army purposes to inter-

pret the formula in their rough-- exceeding rare when Hong shod fashion. Equal determination. Kong Governors have made by the British Government alone direct reference to the foreign can correct their misunder- policy of the Imperial Govern-standing and others' misgivings.. ment, and even rarer when the The agreement will then be seen. in its most satisfactory light, a reference has been made under form of words, changing nothing.. such circumstances.

The necessity for the step, too, "Other Times is worthy of remark. Whatever

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It is a temptation when we wide-spread anxiety regarding read every day of new outrages- the precise meaning of the agree-committed by the Japanese in ment, the existence of this dis-China on British subjects to look. back to Palmerston's greatest. quiet was obviously of so com- speech in the Commons, that of pelling a nature that a categori- June, 1850, in which occurred the cal assurance was desirable.] "Civis... Romanus" sentence.gp That it was possible to give it often quoted and which made Peel, who had actually spoken was significant and enlightening. against Palmerston in the de- Sir Geoffry very naturally firm-bate, say, "It has made us all ly upholds the British Govern- proud of him." The speech last ment's interpretation of the ed nearly five hours, and the chief agreement, that the declaration action in the case of Don Pacifico, point in it was his defence of his does not and cannot change the a Gibraltar Jew and a British. British Government's policy in subject, whose house had been China. Those words, he told the sacked by a mob in Athens. He

demanded compensation. Council, mean exactly what they matter dragged on for some say: no more, no less.

until Palmerston's patience

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