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Show China Rejects Peace Offers For nearly six months, according accord-ing to T. V. Soong, former Fin-iance Fin-iance Minster, China has received receiv-ed "peace offers from Japan on increasingly favorable terms." Mr. Soong says that the Japanese Jap-anese hope to press their advance towards Singapore and "can well afiord to give China liberal terms now" because "after the fall of Singapore, all agreements with China would automatically go by the board." Mr. Soong says that the Japanese Jap-anese reasoning is "perfectly sound" and that it is "so sound that the Chinese can see it too." 'I he reaction of the Chinese Government to peace offers from J.ipan demonstrates that there can be no peace in the world until un-til nations have faith in the pledged pledg-ed word of other nations. China, struggling against grave odds in a war more than three years old, lis forced to the conclusion tha 'she must reject peace terms be j cause she can place no fa th i. ,j he pledged word of her adver ' sary. 'The same observation applie. to Europe, liegai'dless of wh.i ' i eace offer Adolf Hitler and Hen I ito Mussolini put forth lodav heie .s no responsible statesman .on the other side who is able to . put any lailh in the German oi Italian word. ; In short, pract 'rally all Brit-sh Brit-sh oiucials would regard such " mil offer with suspicion, viewing 1. as a stratagem, designed to lull them to sleep. They know, from past experience, that another at. ' lack would begin whenever the truce served the purpose of Ger-I Ger-I many and Italy. |