Not so long alo I wrote about the Anglo-Chinese banquet honour of Sir Frederick Whyte and also how the Kuomintang were foolishly opening a new era in Anglo-Chinese relations, As. this banquet Sir Frederick Whyte pronounced few amiable and empty phrases, in which he pledged himself to nothing. This eminent English statesman who was sent here was afraid to speak with precision wvmpathy with new China, the year he was well spoken of by diplomats of every sort, but spite of this the innocuous' Sir Frederick at his departure was out Jof favour im local British administrative circles. British sketches of him were deliberately impolite, nothing was said of the Anglo-Ci nese banquet and, during the di cussion at a dinner at the Enj Club, he was wholeheartedly scourged. <The chairman, Mr. Macintyre, in making the introductory speech, issued what the newspapers interpreted ax a challenge to the geest. He said rodely and straightforwardly that British policy must be forwarded by fore and force only; ind that this policy must ive directed by local folk and not by Joutsiders. In his reply to this Ispeceh, Sir Frederick—mumbled weakly though at great length the following sentiments: The Nation-movement has much to learn Jand he was unwilling to appraise the existing situation as Mr. Macintyre had done; but one could only pass judgment upon the movement by detaching oneself from the immediate present, from the leaders
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