know precisely what they want, for reply to the question of what is required in this situation they have Jan answer ready: "Three divisions Jof troops and a hundred English advisers and technicians!" That fall that China needs: by no fneans a new programme und the impudence of it surprises noone, but in the spring, when the Chinese [Nationalists supported the workers' and peasants' movement and when the Communists were still within the Kuomintang, the impertinent. British did not dare to make an open [showing of such impudence and only surreptitiously expressed such ideas, They bore with the presence here of diplomats of the first rank from mnalist movement, saying that whatever happened would be of no matter if the Nutionalists only brake with the Com. /munists. And then when this breach came, the "'die-hards" commenced to Jexpress themselves crudely but. sincerely and all the diplomatic spors were taken away. The first Jand second editions of the introduetion to "China in Chaos" are milestones on the course followed by the National Revolution in its foreign, relations. "In the spring it was not 130 discreet to speak of intervention, but now no constraint ix felt about it. O'Malley fled to the north be-Jcause. he was of no further terview Jand the man sent here to gather information, Sir Frederick Whyte, Idid not dare to express openly. in Shanghai his approval of the Chinese Nationalist Movement. Al-[though in an unofficial position, he Jcould sny nothing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
