CHIANG S VIEW

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 4 December 1940, Page 5

CHIANG S VIEW

OF NANKING*SIGNATURE PROLONGED HOSTILITIES THE ONLY RESULT | JAPAN A POTENTIAL CURSEH i [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-CoDyniAtJ ’ Received 4th Dec., 9.30 a.m. £ I CHUNGKING, 3rd December. ' 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 Konoye, for Japan’s plight, first for starting the SinoJapanese war, secondly for signing the Anti-Comintern Pact, thirdly, for defining Japan’s “new order’* | policy, and fourthly for recognising Nanking, all of which would prolong hostilities. Apparently addressing his re- ' marks 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.”

SECURITY IN PACIFIC

AID TO CHINA ESSENTIAL AMERICAN ACTION [ WASHINGTON, 2nd December. [ The joint Senate and House Com- ( mittee of Monetary Affairs unanimous- ■ ly approved the proposals to extend financial aid to China and to help ■ stabilise Chinese currency. The State Secretary, Mr Hull, in a ■ statement to the Press, said, "This i* • such a vital matter that it is the least : we can do in return for the job tha l Chjnese are doing.” Congressmen said that Mr Hull and l the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr ■ Morgenthau, told the committee that America’s position in the Pacific was at, l stake. The aid to China was essential- ■ for the maintenance of the status quo ; in the Far East, and it was an integral I part of the United States’ defence I agenda. [Mr Hull and President Roosevelt 1 announced last Saturday that the; c United States was making to China a' ’ 50,000,000 dollars Export-Import Bank L * loan, and in addition was considering . the early allocation of another 50,000,-; GOO dollars for China for her currency stabilisation. Simultaneously the White House released a letter from the loan administrator, Mr Jesse Jones, stating , that the Metals Reserves Corporation , was arranging 60,000,000-dollar purchases of tin, wolframite, and antimony j from the Chinese National Resources [ Commission, amounting to 60,000,000 ; dollars.] x ___________________