MISTAKEN IDEAS ABOUT CHINA
THE “BOGY” OF COMMUNISM LONDON. April 23. “I sometimes think that in England* there is a tendency to associate support of Japan with reverence for the ‘old school tie.’ ” remarked Mr Edwin Ha ward, formerly editor of the “North China Daily News.” in a lecture to the East India Association at Caxton Hall. London. Mr Haward. who was In Shanghai when 30Q people in a department store were, killed by a bomb, said: “The national conscience p£ the Japanese is at the moment a pri|pner in the hands Of a ruthless clique whose power of dragooning their people is greater than their power to exercise control over their soldiers. Amiable folk in Great Britain have deluded themselves with the thought that Japan is the stabilising influence in the Far East against Communism in China and elsewhere. That was one excuse for running away from the vital issue raised by the Manchurian adventure of 1931. Japan has set up the bogy Of to justify the unjustifiable—her progressive encroachment on Chinese soil." It was a profound mistake, added Mr Haward. to imagine that China waa Communistically inclined.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22414, 30 May 1938, Page 7
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