The documents presented in this book provide an importance commentary on the war in the Far East. The Chinese Bishops jointly and severally bear witness to the social evolution of their country-a process of betterment violently interrupted by the Japanese invasion. The preface gives the background to all these documents. It is written by one who was the first Minister for Foreign Affairs under the Republic and who after several years of office retired from public life and is now a Benedictine monk in Belgium.