Education, speaking in London at a luncheon given at the Chinese Legation at which Mr. Chu Chi-chien was guest, made a speech of which our London correspondent sends the following summary He said that he felt that the great lack between China and England was the absence of a common channel of communication. With many other countries we were unable to speak their language but yet had access to their books and could gain something of the thought and culture which were the real gifts that one nation can make to another. Mr, Fisher laid great stress on the fact that China had given gener ously to the world throughout the ages, thought, culture, art and even material accomplishments and had done so with lavish hands, with the result that Europe would always be her debtor for the things that really mattered. In spite of the lack of a common channel of communications and in spite also of the fact that so few really representative people of either country visited the other, there was nevertheless a very real sympathy between the British and the Chinese. There was a widespread and indeed an almost universal feeling in England that the Chinese were admirable men with good brains and great hearts, that they were industrious and that they had a patriotism of their own, which had fortunately up to the
his own experience he had come across been free from militarism, In a large number of Chinese students and without exception they had got _on admirably with their English comrades. There seemed to be a natural. understanding between them, a link of some sort which gave them interest in the same things, and a common angle of vision. He thought the Chinese sense of humour and the Chinese sense of toleration appealed immensely to the English young men with whom. the Chinese students came in contact. He believed that the interests of the two countries and indeed of the world would be furthered by an exchange of a larger number of men.
It is decidedly a step in the right direction when the Minister of Education voices a hope which has been so strongly expressed) by Britons of all classes in China.
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