Views Upon Success of National Movement representative gathering of! members of St. Andrew's Society; was, present at dinner in the Shans. hai Club on Saturday night, the occasion being taken to honour distinguished Scotsman, Sir Frederick Whyte, K.c.s.t, on the occasion of his visit to Shanghai. Mr. I1.A. Motintyre, Eresident of the Societ was in the chair, and among the guests were Admiral Boyle, General Duncan, and Br. 0, 'O'Malley.
In. proposing the toast of the guest of honour the Chairman said that Sir Frederick Whyte hud come: to China with.an open mind. He! could assure Sir Frederick that every Briton would bold out his right hand of friendship to every Yosgitimate aspiration of China, but he would point out that the' idea turning the left cheek was. exploded theory. If they wished to! be respected they must respect themselves and everybody must hold his head high. 'The British did not want to bully anybody, but they' would not stand being bullied. The stronger their hand, the stronger would be the grip of there would be no mailed fist. invited Sir Frederick to give his views on the situation in The Guest's Reply Sir Frederick Whyte said that be was: in Shanghai solely as a visitor, unit would seem fitting on his part to learn yeat was going on it the county, He understood that! there was a tort of challenge to him from the President of the S to stive his views, but it was a lit premature on his part to say thought. There was an Scottish saying that children and! fods should not see half done work, the work he y half done work. "Rather thun lat he should sec what wns and learn what they could him, He would accept the challenge of the President and would tell them that he yas very acutely conscious, of the difficulty of seeing the true, trond of events in China to-day, bat whop he spoke of events he "was! Hot" merely thinking of those in-eidents which formed the material for newspaper reports, but also the main stream of events which was carrying China today out of her old traditional forms of governs into something: which was calle the new Chin which probably none those present and none of their Chinese friends were yet uble define, Tt seemed to him that if they were to get at all a true picture of what was happening, they must withdraw themselves somewhat from the effect of the day to day oceurences which were reported in the newspapers and of which, for instance, the trade of many gentlemen round that table was for the moment the victim. Tt was always} Aifficult ina confused situation like: the present to say where the main stream of events was carrying them.
The National Movement To describe the cour r which that was following was certainly ity, but what he wae endeavouring to do was 10 derstand where that main stream originally took its rise and where wax leading China to-day. hho suggested to him-and he suggested to his that. they bad got "to themselves from the influence of particular incidents it the development of the Nationalist movement und try to sce actual fact the fundamental effect the Nationalist. movement.
They were living today ina series of dissolving mists—physieal mists that had risen from" the 'Yeustze, He had seen exactly. the same thing in India, and the less clove they were to events, the less did they see these things' working. In order to put the matter to the test of a concrete question lhe hud ried to ask himself how it was that the Nationalist movement in China. Canton, eventually ly said "the Nationalist Movement" Becutixe he could not speak of per-suns or of armies or of military Teaders or of political groups. was speaking of something which seemed to him to transcend all of
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