NEW WORLD ORDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 9

NEW WORLD ORDER

GREAT POST-WAR TASK

CHINA'S COLLABORATION

Dr* Quo Tai-chi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, has made the following statement, which was cabled to the Chinese ConsulGeneral in Wellington:—"The Chinese Government and people whole-hearted-ly welcome and endorse the joint declaration of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill on the fundamental aims of the democratic Powers in resistance to aggression and the aspirations of all peaceful and freedomloving peoples, including those in the Axis countries, for a real new world order. China feels all the more gratified as the eight-point programme is essentially in harmony with the principles of the Kuomintang and its founder's advocacy of a 'Great Commonwealth of Nations.'

"The post-war world reconstruction will constitute a task even more difficult than winning the war itself. Restoration of freedom to the conquered peoples, full economic collaboration between all nations in the enjoyment of access on equal terms to trade and raw materials and in the advancement of living standards, and the establishment of a permanent system of general security will require the supreme efforts and resolute stateship of the democracies and their leaders. In this itask China is prepared to make her full contribution, just as she has for the past four years made untold sacrifices of her. Man-power and national resources toward the democratic cause and continues to play her essential part in the World-Wide conflict. China believes that the final destruction of the forces of aggression can be most swiftly achieved by bringing about the defeat of Japan first thi-ough tightening the 'encirclement' of which she herself is the sole architect."