Evening star., 1937-11-03
Tert OF Mr.. DaDis' speech on
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By the Associated Press.

BY the AsSocia ted Press
BRUSSELS. Belgium, Nov. 3.-Dr.
V. K. Wellington Koo asserted today
that China would not be contributing
to the cause of international law and
order if she accepted peace with ia
pan "at any price"
Chlna's representative to the con-
ference here on the Chinese-Japanese
conflict predicted:
II japanese aggression in the Far
East is not checked and faith In the
pledged word is not restored, then
there is every danger that japanese
forces will overrun the boundaries of
China and throw the world into a
general war from which no important
power will long be able to keep aloof."
Reads Prepared Speech.
DR.. Koo. stating his country's posi-
ton In the Far Eastern war, read a
14-page prepared speech in which he
sought to show the japanese were
conducting the most utterly ruthless
methods of warfare" the civilized
world has ever seen.
He maintained that the invading
armies, moreover, have sought con-
slstently to undermine the principle Of
the open door. or-equal opportunity, in
China for the commerce and industry
Of all nations.
China. he said, regrets the absence
OF japanese participation in the con-
ference here. At the same time, how
ever, members of his delegation told
the Associated Press that the Chinese
objected to extending a new invitation
to Japan because it would result in
delay.
Quick action, they said, echoing the
words OF the British Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden, and the French Foreign
Minister, Yvon Delbos, was necessary
IN view Of increasing tenseness in the
Far Eastern situation.
Aggression Blamed.
DR.. Koo declared anti-Japanese
feeling in China, which the Japanese
repeatedly have cited in attempts to
justify their military operations. is a
direct result of overt acts of aggres-
Sion"
References to Communist danger. he
asserted, were ''pretext to hoodwink
the world as to the real aggressive
character" of Japanese policy.
DR.. Koo closed his address by QUOT
ing from the speech of President
Roosevelt at Chicago, in which the
Chief Executive of the United States
said "peace-loving nations must make
a concerted effort in opposition to
those violations of treaties and those
ignorings of humane instincts which
today are creating state of inter-
national anarchy and instability from
which there is no escape through mere
isolation or neutrality"
Earlier, a concerted appeal for direct
negotiations between China and apan
to end their sanguinary conflict
marked the opening session of the
Brussels Conference, with Italy as
serting there can be no question of
sanctions.
Delegates of the United States
Great Britain and France joined in
an appeal for the Chinese and jap
anese to settle their conflict by
peaceful processes"
Count Luigi Aldrovandi-M i-Marescotti
Premier Mussolinis representative.
went further. He said the conference
could not speak of quarantine" of one
or the other of the fighting nations.
This was seen as reference to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Chicago speech.
Davis Sounds Keynote.
Norman H. Davis, United States
delegate, sounded the keynote of the
conference in proposing direct nego-
tiations between Japan and China.
Eden, Delbos and Aldrovandi-M Mares
cotti agreed that such a course was
preferable.
Eden proposed the creation of an
executive organ of the conference
which should concentrate on seeking
peace quickly.
The speakers, while referring to hor-
rors in the Far Eastern conflict, scru-
pulously refrained from arraigning
Japan.
The delegates followed the lead
given by Paul Spaak, Belgian Foreign
Minister and chairman of the confer
ence, that the Brussels parley should
not be an international tribunal before
which Japan should be hailed and
treated as guilty party.
II was evident the statesmen were
clearing the way to induce Japan
either to change her mind and come
to the conference.-the which she re-
fused an invitation-or to accept direct
negotiations with China.
The conference is being held in the
beautiful Hall Of Academies, with rare
(See BRUSSELS. PAGE A-3)