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people over their own economy with the ruthless imperialist-fascist domination of Manchurian, Korean, and Formosan economy by the Japanese.

When the Soviet Union initiate a movement of more than fifty nations, including the non-League member the United States, condemning Italy's aggression against Ethiopia, Japan as well as Germany stood aloof. Tecle Hawariate, delegate of Ethiopia, gave an interview to James W. Ford at Geneva, and he praised the stand taken by the Soviet Union (Daily Worker, September 30, 1935). The Soviet film "Abyssinia" explodes the lie of Mussolini's propaganda machine that the Emperor Haile Selassie fled from Ethiopia because of cowardice. The Negus and Litvinoff at Geneva together have fought for world peace.

V. The Real Liberators of China

One-fourth of the human race lives in China. Is it any wonder that the imperialists have dreaded the prospect of the consolidation of China's four hundred and fifty million people into a united and powerful nation?

Today, China's huge population stands united against the invader. and it is the recognition of this vital fact that furnishes the key to the understanding of the attitude of all groups to the present Sino-Japanese War. Baron Tanaka's fear of an awakened China, its threat to Japan's expansionist dreams, are indeed well-founded. A new and united China faces the Japanese invader. The Chinese people have overcome division within their ranks and now stand solidly together, determined to fling off the foreign yoke and to secure the independence of their country.

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The program around which this unity has been achieved was clearly outlined in 1936 in the stirring "Manifesto to the Whole of the Chinese People on Resistance to Japan and the Salvation of the Fatherland," addressed to the Kuomintang (Chinese People's Party) by the government of the Chinese Soviet districts and the Communist Party. This historic document called for "the establishment of an All-China United People's Government of National Defense," to resist the encroachments of the Japanese imperialists. Declaring that the main task facing such a government will be to organize resistance to Japanese imperialism, and the salvation of the fatherland," the manifesto called for the extension of democratic liberties to all sections of the Chinese people, and the improvement of the living conditions of the masses, as the best guarantee for unity of the people against the invaders.

At the present time, the national salvation movement in China is moving forward under the banner of this program. The Japanese military fascists  and the reactionary imperialist circles in Europe and America - all of those who have benefited from the disunity of China in the past, and the semi-colonial oppression of its peoples - have due cause for alarm. For it is against the sinister forces of reaction the world over that this movement is directed. Its aim is to establish a free, independent China.

The Japanese fascists-militarists, under the guise of liberating China, are attempting to crush the united liberation movement of the Chinese people. They are attempting to crush the struggle of an awakened Chinese people - the most powerful force fighting for a free China, a free Asia. It is clear that the real liberators of China re the Chinese people themselves, and it is this force that the Japanese rulers fear.

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