oan upbar class environment, dhe emall nec th "its so-called "society," -club-Smite, ten dances, cabarets, general odal gaiety, innumerable "sports and unacopstomed domestic service, they "are thenceforth too greatly} occupied to give any thought. to Ghinese civilization. Whey take for granted, without "conscious. effort, hat what they vee of their servants)
paige staffs is about. all there is to know-—excapt what they rend in the -nowspapers about " "civil "wars," if they ever read the papers.
"and whose present" comforts. a weet sat the Bund. foreahore—-gunboat
reasons, bat not for the enforcement there for, defile humanitarian sigieges which Sot rem 'One' or two of my antagonists went off, ax the saying goes, at halt-cock" and inferred that T'was against the presence of these gun honta, Possibly the italicized Line will help them to amend their hasty conclusions. If not, T do, not see what T can add to make myself any leaner. Almost anyone who thinks about it at all knows that the gun-bouts are here to protect life and! property, a necessary precaution in Himes like these when there is a ity of certain a
onteol and embroiling China with {actions getting beyond yents in the
foreign nations. Nevertheless, they' fare not her€ to back up the witd launs for armed intervention that "ne hears too frequently expressed. by laxesponsible foreigners, totally ignorant "of the relationship of Sinosforeign problems with the rest of the world's affairs, In conclusion T atill hold that my definition iv applicable to the state fof mind of the majority of Shang-hal_vesidents, regardless of their ficial, social, or economic star Te was not conceived in any spirit 'bE "pique or disgust" and carries no] positive "insult" whatever, T point-fed to a condition, which is readily explicable, and if that condition in turn points to unfortunate, sins of mission in the foreigner's much-vaunted adaptability in new. sur-soundings, it still docs not imply. That those "sins" wore deliberate, Intolerance, bigotry, race pre Judice, re the natural outcome infavmed minds, o& those partly, QGormed cly one-sided propaganda.
foviegners in Ching those who are for singled out fr antagonism, wonderful opportunity to' render! Their: countries a service, a, service! unfortunately without medals, trying to bring about closer contacts with the Chinese, a better under. Blanding of her' civilization and] problems, and achieving a basis! upon which can be built the last Fabric of a mutual goodwill Tam, ete,
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