"Having said so much I beg the House to look at the large aspects of this problem If you do ut. see the occurrences of the last few days in the proper perspective you will ever reach a just conclusion or see wherein lies the real remedy for the present discontent, "AN of us will remember and wi) gratefully acknowledge the support which China rendered to the Allies during the War and the part. which she took with us in the common struggle.
After the War there met at Washington that conference to: which Mr. Trevelyan referred. There were represented all the great Powers having interests China and they met with the single-hearted desire to help Chi the difficulties which she had to I beg the House to consider what those difficulties were.
"From our point of view the worl before us was part of the work of reconstruction which eon, fronted every nation, belligerent Fon-vemgerent, vartet the upl aval of the War, but in China the cumstances were of peculiar difficulty.
"Tt is difficult to our imagination to picture the vastness of China and' her population and the diversities! which exist between province and! Province. China is not a country in the European sense It is almost ritment. It is a congeries of tions mot wholly amalgamated and with deep differences dividing. its provinces. It includes one-fifth of the human race.
The political mind of China from the earliest days has been satur rated in tradition. It drew its strength from its love, respect and reverence for its ancestors. Its institutions were centralized and autocratie. These institutions were weakened even before the war.
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