YENAN COMMENTATOR'S COMMENTS

2 June 1941

[Text] A Yenan commentator commented on the letters exchanged between
Hull and Kuo T'ai-ch'i on America's willingness to relinquish its extraterritoriality in China after peace is resumed between China and Japan:

This is an interesting interlude in the midst of fermenting a Far Eastern
Munich. The purpose is to obscure the understanding of the Chinese people and their vigilance against the realistic danger of betrayal with a
blank check of a remote future. Nevertheless, while the trick may win
the gratitude and allegiance of certain Chinese who worship the dollar
and revere material things, it will only aggravate the feeling of
repugnance of the broad masses of China. They will tell Uncle Sam:
Instead of such blank checks of a remote future, it is better for you
to immediately stop sending petroleum, iron and steel, and other weapons
to Japan, and not to serve as an accomplice of the Japanese bandits in
their slaughter of the Chinese.

o CHIEH-FANG JIH-PAO, 2 June 1941