Then came the days of disillusionment. Peking was as ever, corrupt and "contented. The provincial tuchuns continued to war on one other. The generation of young als seemed to achieve nothing. Cabinet after cabinet rose and fell in which the young hopes of China had their day but not a free day, pot an day unhampered by military interference. The Washington Conference came. and weht. Nothing much was achieved except promises It is an easy matter for foreigners to say: Why don't they do something? They have been doing things, doing many of them wrongheadedly, as youth will. But when-fever the' young men of China have risen within recent years, their political ity has unfortunately been diverted against the foreigner and the foreigner has grown unsympathetic, because he has suffered and because he has. misunderstood. It is not that the youth of! China anti-foreign but that they seek a free China and know not where to find freedom. To rise against the Government at a time when China is involved in serious international difficulties seems to them almost like treason, seems to be sacrificing the land permanently. for some small gain in human liberty. Yet to continue to live as, Chinese must live in their own country under present conditions resolves them into a heart-breaking pessimism which sees no end in life but death.
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