and his son, Sir Austen Chamber-nin, Joseph Chamberlain was perhaps the last of the great line of! British imperialists, and if he could now know that his son was the author of the Locarno policy and also of the new China he would probably refuse to believe it. Sir Austen, however, could say that policy was the natural development of his father's ideas. The Chinese found it dificult to belive that such transformation of Great Britain's policy had taken place. He assured hhis Chinese friends that there had been a transformation in Great] Britain's policy and that they were ready to give sympathetic consideration to China's aspirations.
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