Shanghai... is. 22 per annum Othe parts' of China 187 repair the years that the locust storm has eaten is the change in the living habits of our people. It is searcely too much to. say that a great part of England is being re-built. Whole streets in tls most fashionable shopping centres of London are closed, in All communications should be ad-whole or in part, to traffic to tte. ey Nee Stalin NOT] permit of construction on remittances should be niade|Jarger and more -imposing scale. Still more striking is the fact Where such persons function, undeed, things do not usually go }to the dogs but take a turn for the better It is not because blind optimism is a cure for the ills of the but simply be-caus? a strong and healthy out-took and, more particularly, a [strong and healthy personality, fare as contagious as disease. Tt is easy to understand that when man of Sir Frederick Whyte' personality, his naval officer's appearance and manner, into an atmosphere of conspiracy] jand distrust, petty quibbling and petty spite, and says with assur-mental outlook, and we do not! believe that Sir Frederick Whyte }would, when he knew enough jabour them, endorse such a policy. As Mr. MacIntyre suggests, he would be firmly friendly but firmly honest—and that just what foreign policy, in its tactics, has not been for years.
has been consistently weak and consistently dishonest. Very. few diplomatic or consular men of any nationality have been able for a very long while to endorse the tactics that they were ordered to carry out. They have never been free to discriminate
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