The Radio Review
THE invitation issued to Mr. Matsuoka, who was head of the Japanese delegation at Geneva, and to Mr. Quo Tai-Chi, Chinese Minister in London, to broadcast statements of their countries' points of view on the Manchurian question, was yet another step forward in the right direction. Unfortun- ately, there was no question of a debate : the speakers were closeted in different studios and each spoke for ten minutes. It was noticeable that, for all his insistence on the " realities " of the case, Mr. Matsuoka was much the more impassioned speaker of the two. He claimed that Japan was acting in the interests of the whole world, and that, anyway, Jehol was merely "a storm in a teacup "-" it is almost over now," he said. Mr. Quo Tai-chi, on the other hand, contended that Japan was anti-foreign and that, in fact, it was China which, in her policy of grafting the new civilization on to the old, sought and whole-heartedly welcomed the support of the white races. He appealed to England to make a moral stand against the aggressor by refusing any kind of aid. Ile drew pointed attention to Lord Lytton's article in last week's Spectator, which emphasized that the solution of the problem lay at Geneva.
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