The Archive · 1927

Great Britain and China

To the Editor of the "NontH-Cuia Dairy News."

Sm—Permit_me to put it to! "F.D.Z." in this way.

He wil grant, Iam sure, that nations, like individuals, must be When the foreign nations, with' Great Britain in the lead, frst entered into relations with China, they found they had to deal with an arrogant, evasive, untruthful government. In the course of time, this arrogance developed into actual Sm—"It is nothing more nor less than a tragedy that he should express such strong opinions on things that he can have, in the nature of things, so very little to go upon and who has just about as much right to make the statements accredited to him as the writer would have to make similar statements on the strength of a brief. trip to India or a rush through Java under the aegis of men who are notoriously one-sided in their views. What is needed is an open mind and a mind that can sce both sides, but as far as the writer is able to Judge most of the self-appointed ones who honour this country with their resenee are lamentably important quali-two sentences in hose two sentences are meant to be applied also to Senator Goff. It does not seem to me that he stayed here long. As to whether he saw Doth sides or one, nobody but, "Ex-

Liberal Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1918, I believe.

Last February another Liberal ex-Member of Parliament touched China for a couple of days, in the person of Mr. Alfred Henry Scott, who sat for Manchester from 1906 to 1910.

Mr. Scott was intorviewed by @ Shanghai paper and here ate some of his views:— always opposed British owner. the, opinion fof Meany others for ihat living bodies of English sailors who stood fant across the Hankow Bund, giving England another epic matchless discipline and self-restraint. Some of those very men fare aboard ships lying off the Shanghai Bund to-day. A week oF '50 ago Chinese were being exhibited in wooden cages in. "Nationalist" Nanking ahd. Chinkiang. The une changing East!

If only one could get the Frederick Whytes, the" Alfred Scotts, and the Henry Hodgking to face the music and come out on to Mig some public platform where they can be told things about themselves, Too,'much importance. wae being st:! even they are smugly occupied schod tothe stories of the

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