Tu opposition to highly articulate 'N.C.C. delegations in Great Britain and America, the silent dissent of 1 few million intelligent Chinese and a few hundred foreign traders and bonkers counts for something less than nil. Our Chamberlains and lour Kelloggs are human politicians, therefore amenable to the discipline of constituencies,-therefore weak in the face of a noisy assault and indifferent to the appeal of _reason. We feel that tity must know the' facts and therefore must act} on the facts. In this we feel wrongly. They tune in to the grand noise and evolve a policy that harmonizes with Facts mean nothing to the poli tic ian; the public's interpretation of news, Teal or bogus, means ever thing. China's ultimate well-being depends almost altogether upon the) concensus of opinion of Europe and America, The nationalists may sputter over this, but the expensive} efforts that they make to mislead Occidental opinion are in themselves a confession of the truth of this statement. The Red pro-joters of chaos, the _anti-foreign nationalists" and the Soviet of Red Chinese Churches (the N.C. C.) would not be spending so much on foreign publicity if the perversion of pinion abroad ware not exuental ugh-going wrecking China. The N.C.C, and the mis-jons that support it would see the whole foreign investment in China go up in smoke in the hope that they would eventually get a charter from the incendiaries to hook some sort of 2 mongrel church out of woul all China go up in the ashes. The average politician
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