fo the Editor of the "Norta-CHINA Daty News."
SiR:—I am just about to end a six month visit to the Orient, where Thave received much enlightenment and understanding of strange peoples. But there is one thing I have noticed with growing wonder and much apprehension; that the paucity of our own' American news service to the Orient, and the amounting to a propaganda of unfriendliness that I read in the Shanghai daily papers. There have deen columns about our amazing sperity, in a tone implying that it is a national crime, at Toast a misdemeanour; and that it is due to what we gained from the wart How two and two can be added to make that five, I do not know. Our prosperity has always been, great in the sense that it has been more broadly shared than that of any cther nations, but that we did not suffer with the rest of the world in after the war is pure'
formation. Wa! earn our lessons faster, and change conditions more easily than less! flexible governments, that is all. We had coal strikes, our railroad threat and all the rest of it, but we have made labour a partner instead of enemy and we are all reaping the benefit. Labour Banks are now a feature of the financial world, and are as much regarded as is the house of J.P. Morgan.
The largest headlines are devoted to war debts. So are the largest misstatements. "Uncle Shylock" was long ceased to be funny, and why we should be solemnly warned that we ace gaining the hatred of ithe world by having more money] lin Washington than there is in other capitals, passes understanding, when itor three generations exactly that situation existed with "the little old lady in Threadneedle Street" and the world was not taught to hate england! The articles all imply lehar we are holding up helpless Ipeoples, for our own profit.
Not once have I seen any refer-nee to our generosity, to. the Imillions we have poured into Europe itor reconstruction purposes, credit for our efforts toward secur-Jing world peace by better methods [than prevailed before the war; no Istatement that we asked for nothing and received nothing for our part in it. And no reference to the fact that already we have written off lgomething like G. $7,000,000,000 of the debts, that Wwe have only lasked each debtor nation to pay what its own representatives. said lit could pay, and have made terms mutually agreeable. As for the rest, what is the basis of inter-Inational relations? Isn't it inter-Inational good faith? You give your word, and you keep it. Way) is Russia an outlaw nation and why lis her influence feared in Chins For one thing, that she ro-Jpudintes her obligations.
'Are England and France bau! rupt nations? Of the 4,000,000 Isquare miles of territory' which changed hands after the war, Eng-has something like ifourtha; France, Italy, and J leach a good slice. One of the British officials said in Parliamer winter that never had Great Britain been in such a position of power and influence as at the present ti France has borrowed more than halt lof what she calls her "war deb, the war and that sum practically all she has been asked ito refund to the United States. She has financed an expensive African war since that time, and haa borrowed from private sources in America more than she borrowed for the Great War, and is paying interest on it without any trouble outery. Isn't there a little divetepaney' ther Just yesterday I read that stale 'o!T joke about "we won the war." I am ready to accept full responsibility for the statement, that never did any American, not even a drunk-soldier, make that remark, meaning that we alone won the war. We \doany with pride that we win it, and thus save a civilization which'we share and think worth fighting for; that was our only rei son for going into the war at all. We had nothing to gain, and nothing to If we didn't help to win it, wh did General Haig mean when sent word early in 1918, "Send us men, or we ara lost; my back is to the wall."
We sent mex in millions, the pick, of the nation, and they made proud. They died like men, in trenches which we rented!
If we were in the war for profit, why did we not nceept Germany' offer to come in on her side and have Canada as q reward, besides other choice bits we mig!
This offer was definitely representatives of the Kaiser and as definitely scorned, Not only is it ungenerous to add to this chorus of reproach, which. started in France, I'am sorry to say, it more necessary for good that the English ing nations should be united now and here.
Racially we stand for constitutional government, for justice and protection to the indivi dual in his rights of liberty and property against tyranny both of Communism and Imperialism—that much abused word. If we do not stand unitedly for them, we are a house divided.
So little does our own news service help to present us justly in the Orient that our own nationals: have become confused and think: something in the acfons, since they are so often wade, and never refuted. [Just at present it iz fashionable, internationally, to "bite the _hand "but the onus of that not upon America nor Americans; ply justifies the Borabs among, tus, whom we deplore. There are larger problems snd deeper issues! than the peevish fretfulness reflect-jed in the Press of China, and 1 appeal to you to select your news.
a due roger' to its relation to these greater veines.
Tam, ete., (Gifns.) Sastven '7. Cuover. Shanghai, De-. 14, 1926,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.