“BOUNDLESS CURSE”
JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC VIGOROUS DENUNCIATION BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK. APPEAL TO UNITED STATES. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) CHUNGKING, December 2. General Chiang Kai-shek expressed the opinion that the Japanese recognition of the Nanking regime insults the intelligence of both the Japanese and Chinese people. It is, he said, a ’’great blot on the Japanese national prestige” because it will prolong instead of shorten the hostilities. He blamed the Japanese Premier, Prince Konoyc. for Japan's plight, first for starting the Sino-Japanese war. secondly for signing the Anti-Comin-tern Pact, thirdly for defining Japan's “new order” policy, and fourthly for recognising Nanking, all of which would prolong hostilities. Apparently addressing his remarks to Washington. General Chiang urged the continuation of a firm Far East policy in spite of the European war. He termed Japan as “a potentially boundless curse in the Pacific.’ ’
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1940, Page 6
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