It is sulicient to say that there Bre twa major movements taking lace in China to-day, one the strug-Glo of the Chinese people to free and make human life the cheapest commodity in all the world. In [fact, during the past 16 years, since the "formation of the Chinese Re-Dublic, the attempt to engraft the principles of democratic government on this helpless and hopeless people schooled, environed and indoctrinated for 5,000 years with every degree] of superstition and dependency, has meant and will mean for some time themselves from the tyranny of the to collie, death, slavery, and the militarists; the other an organized attempt of Russia to involve China her programme of world revolution and world destruction. Tt is permissible, and therefore helpful, summarize these aims and pur-1 Boses as: follows:
'The warlords are fighting solely to maintain their respective military dictatorships, always, however, with the' settled: purpose of selling out at fany time tothe highest bidder, General "Chiang Kai-shole purposes lish the so-called "unequal and establish, if possible, a con: visible pursuit of annihilation.
China, Left alone, might have worked. out in her own way an escape from her present chaos. She has not been left alone, and she is not) now and. she never has been free to be herself and to think out and choose her place among the nations of the world. The Chinese people} are morbidly-and weakly susceptible. 'They are intensely sensitive and responsive to suggestion. As a people, they have neither a sense of obligation nor @ spirit of forgiveness. They. are easily excited and when' passion and anger hold their
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