The Procrastination of Washington a Menace to Friendshi Views of Secretary of Nantao Institute; Principle of Right Might An American paper published in the Southern states has given a returned missionary an opportunity to express his feelings about the situation in China in a vein which must be offensive to the majority of hhis nationals resident here. left to his colleagues to check his remarks and comment upon them, "Everyone who believes in the principle of right rather than expediency, in shaping foreign policy should back the demands of Senator Borah and Congressman Stephen G. Porter for an immediate and definite statement of a United States policy toward China based on justice and not on stand-patism," declared Emory Luccock, general secretary of the Nantao Christian Institute, Shanghai, who, with Mr. Luccock and their two children, is the guest lof Mrs, Tauccock's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Walter P." Maddock," 150} Wellington Avenue, Procrastination in making clear the stand of the United States has lessened the friendship of the Chinese people toward the United States despite the fact that this friendship ional basis which hitherto secure, Mr. Luecock said.
"It is @ blot upon our Christian civilization that the Christian West has for yenrs been meeting the proposals of the non-Christian Bast with the statement—implied if not actual-
right, put into words—that might male 'We have said, virtually: 'If you want us to give you a hearing, go build yourselves an army.' And now China has built herself an army, one of the best trained and equipped in the world, supplied with officers f high type, trained in the Canton Military Academy which, since its reorganization, is accorded by ox-perts a place among the best institutions of its type," said Mr. Luc-cock.
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