793.94/8591: Telegram
The Counselor of Embassy in China (Peck) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:25 a.m.]
170. China press today carries following Domei article:
Domei, Tokyo, April 19.
“Formulation of a ‘stable’ China policy was urged upon the Government today by Mr. Tatsuo Kawai, the newly appointed director of the Gaimusho’s76 Information Bureau on his arrival here from Shanghai where he served as Consul General.
‘Retarded in her economic development, China is financially becoming a modern state’, declared Mr. Kawai.
‘An important feature of this process is the Nanking Government success in bringing under its sway, direct or indirect, the nation’s economic structure.
‘Nanking today directly controls the financial and the more important industrial activities. It is also gradually extending its control over trade and other fields of economic endeavor.
‘Therefore’, Mr. Kawai asserted, ‘if we desire to achieve Sino-Japanese economic cooperation, we must deal directly with the Central Government.
[Page 69]‘It follows’, he added, ‘that positive efforts must be made to readjust the political relations between the two countries at the earliest possible opportunity’”.
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- Japanese Foreign Office.↩