NO TURNING BACK.
. . T ® ar argument of aggrenslvs Powers is that, Eaving started, they are obliged to go on or they will lose what they have Agam and again in history this has been their Nemesis, and it may very easily he so with Japan. Her Manchukuo enterprise has been enormously expensive, and so far has brought no eeonomic return. Her people do not go there, and her effort, very creditable in itself, in suppressmg bandits and building roads and railways has been mainly for the benefit of the Chinese, who, being a practical people, have unmigrated there in large numhers and see no harm in enjoying these a,menities at the expense of the Japanese. It is in this way that . natural justice reasserts itself. The Chinese have an extraordinary - capacity for absorbing other people, and nothing -is more Iikely than that, when the Japanese have exhausted and perhapa bankrupted themselves in occupying and cleaning up North China, its rightful owners will quietly digest them and resume possession. This may take generationfe, but what are generations to a country whioh has mfinite patience and a .continuous history for 3000 vear* f " The Economist. ^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 33, 2 November 1937, Page 4
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