There was nothing Britain desired more than good feelings between the two communities. The Chinese! had just reason for disappointme at the delay in carrying out th recommendations of the Washington Conference. Britain also axrecd that there wore reforms which might and should be carried out. The last} the Government desired to do was to suggest that Britain held] or desired to hold an illegitimate} position of superiority in connexion with the affairs of China.
Chinese and Britith representatives could hold frank dir-cussions, it woud be found that differences of principle did not exist.
Temporarily, however. speci arrangements' might have to be jade, not interfering with the! ignify of China or her autonomous development—axtorior arrangements} Dut arrangements somewhat ¢xceptional in character.
That could easily be arranged between the Chinese and the British Government, but, the speaker con: cluded, it was impossible to rec how any satisfactory policy could be carried out either by Britain or any Western Power or by all the Western Powers acting together until China had set her own house in order—Revter.
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