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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1, 1939.

MIRROR OF WORLD OPINION

NO HATE

the

join hands with all patriotic parties and organisations with all The feeling now expressed against patriotic citizens of our country to Hitlerism is not a new thing that has strengthen the National Anti-Japan- emerged with the war. It has been ese United Front and the co-operation

the Kuomintang and steadily mounting for years, increas- between

the ing with each assault upon a weak Communist Party and to execute the country and with each fresh persecu- Three Peoples Principles (San Min tion of Jews or Christians. About that, Chu I). And we have but one objec- indeed, there is burning indignation; tive-to drive the enemy back to the there is amazement that this should borders of Korea and recover all of be possible in the twentieth century. our lost territories. But according to those who have been

"We have nothing but condemnation studying British opinion, the people for either the Wang Ching-wel's who And little satisfaction in the prospect are openly traitors or their brothers of seeking redress through victory and who secretly exacerbate friction be- do not think in terms of humillating tween the Communist Party and the the German people.

Kuomintang in order to split our unity'

A great

growth in international and reduce our country to civil war. sentiment in Britain since the World It is undeniable that their splitting in- War is noted. It is no longer generally trigues are preparation for capitulation and that their policy, at the cost of the believed that the prosperity of Ger- whole nation, is the expression of many is antagonistic to the prosperity nothing but the selfish interests of a of the British Empire, or that Britain few. We have faith in the judgment will become richer if Germany be- of our people and we know every in- comes poorer. The defects in the trigue will be exposed for what it is." Treaty of Versailles are as willingly -Mao Tze-tung, Leader of the Chin- admitted in Britain as anywhere, and ese Communist Party, in "China To- those who already think in terms of a day." future peace say only that Hitlerism, with its aggression and persecution, must go.

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WHO IS TO BLAME?

The lessons of bitter experience have not been forgotten. The spirit which inspired the conception of the

The Japanese cannot legitimately League of Nations is not dead. There.

complain about foreign misunder- are millions who believe that though armaments must be used to the utmost, standing of the so-called new order the war will not be won by armaments in East Asia so long as their behavi- alone, but that victory will fall to the our is driving the most innocuously employed of all foreigners-the mis- side which proves that it is fighting sionaries--but of their chosen fields of for justice, peace, and in the last re- endeavour. It is a fact which reflects sort, generosity.-"Christian Science

a sad light upon Japanese occupied Monitor."

areas in China that mission work is being rendered increasingly impos- sible where they rule, while in the parts of the country still under na- tional

there is government control "The Chinese Communists are little or no interference with foreign making things difficult for their lead- missions and no hindrances are put ers at Chungking, declaring that they in the way of their expansion. It is had joined the Red Party on the de- understandable that, in the light of a clared resolution of regarding Japan mistake notion of economics, the Ja-

common enemy

а

CHINA'S COMMUNISTS

of the Kuomintang and Communists. But now that So- viet Russia has de- clared peace with Japan at Nomon- han, how can be their presence accounted as Com¬ munists fighting Japan? they ask.

"The Communist leaders are in deep to water, unable

give satisfactory answer to this

NEUTRALITY

Domestic American legislation is interfering with the interna- tlonal law aspects of neutrality to the extent of depriving the sea powers of a quality of air- craft reinforcement which is no trifling detall, but might well be the turning point in the conflict. With the embargo limited, these powers might obtain by the cash and carry method a total running Into thousands of planes a year.

panese should wish to exclude foreign from merchants

the interior of this country understandable but not the less in- all tolerable for

at- that. But to tack missions for

the apparent rea- son that they are ΣΤΙΧ chiefly by people of a dif- ferent race and colouring from the would-be is altogether a

question, while internal dissension is conquerors of China daily growing, threatening a final dis- different proposition. Be they Bri- integration. So much so that one of tish, Americans, or Scandinavians, these leaders has hurriedly gone to missionaries in this country are here Moscow to obtain instructions what is because they have heard a call to best to be done.

"It is all their business and we don't care what becomes of them. The only thing that interests us is the pre- carious and miserable status of those who depend soul and body upon the whims of others. Perchance, Chiang Kai-shek may have begun feeling the same. But both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party will soon be relieved of their worries; they are both destined to disappear before Japan's gunshot:"--"Japan

Times Weekly."

AN ANSWER

"We Communists openly declare our complete and lasting adherence to the continuance of the war of resis- tance. We support Generalissimo Chiang Kal-abek, the National Clov- ernment and the national programı for the war. firmly oppose the called pe

ip. We are willing

spread enlightenment among the Chi- nese masses. They take nothing out of the country, but bring much, both economically and culturally, into it. To imagine that they are a power for evil against Japan is to revert to the mentality of the Boxer years of 1900, legends of blood- when horrific thirsty "foreign_devils" were spread abroad. It would be, a wholesome corrective of some of the misunder- standings of the Japanese objectives which, as Mr. Joseph Clark Grew's speech warned Tokyo, exist abroad, If the Japanese authorities in China were to put a quick end to the anti-mission agitation which has ap- parently been officially encouraged in many areas. And if, as the Japanese seems to fear, the Japanese forces have as a consequence to put up with some hostile criticism, they may rest assur- ed that hostility among foreigners in the interior, wil case, the moment that persecutions and unwarranted at-

are disce

CDN!