JAPAN'S FUTILE WORDS
" Vainly Japan is trying to undo the effects of its military policy en Chinese and world opinion'. The latest explanations by the spokesmen of the Foreign Office, the Army and the Navy are just as unconvincing as the many earlier statements of high diplomatic and military officials. Their present postulate of the causes of the conflict, their anger at the effectiveness of Chinese 'propaganda' abroad, their defiant refusal to eonsider any auggestions of mediation and their assurances that Japan seeks only fruitful 'co-operation' with China — these remonstrances cannot be expeeted to blind the rest of the world to the patent fact of Japan's guilt. To frustrate Chinese unity under a Government independent of Japanese dietation — not to curb Communism — Japan proseculee relentless war against Chiang
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 4
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128JAPAN'S FUTILE WORDS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 4
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