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Your Excellency!
Ladies and Gentlemen!
I am very glad to have the honour to speak to you. I am going to give you a conception of what has happened during these last seven years, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough & what the Resistance war in China means to World War II, and what the objects of our Resistance war are. 
China has a history of five thousand years. Most of the old countries in the world [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] which have so long a history like China are nearly vanished. Only China still exists and is fighting a historical war, as never before [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] shoulder to shoulder with the peace loving, anti-agressive nations of the world [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] for justice and freedom and emancipation of mankind. She is proceeding bravely on her way to glorious victory and permanent peace. 
The chinese nation has never transgressed the necessary boundary of her natural growth and never expanded her forces of arms beyond her territory. But if violence comes from the outside and breaks the line of our national defense, occupies the life space necessary for our people, then the chinese nation is compelled to take to the arms and restore their rights. The will of the chinese nation is strong, her power hard and her culture old and great. All this makes the Chinese a people that does not intrude and insult, but neither will take insult or intrusion from others. In short, the chinese people will resist to force of arms, but will not start aggression, they will absorb other peoples' culture and transmit their own to others. These are the most remarkable characteristics of the Chinese in the development of their national existnce. On july 7th 1937, Japan, with the excuse of manouvers, has occupied Lukaochiao [[chinese characters]] and the prefecture Wanpin [[chinese characters ]]by force, with the object to cut communications to north and south and to put the only important town, Peiping, the former capital of ancient China under full control of the Japanese. The chinese people know well, that this incident would not only develop into a problem of existence for China, but the whole world's happiness and peace would be in danger.