Another Side to the Que Without Force Has Never Been Unification By T. B. Gnarrox -—In the N.C.D.N. of May 9 Mr. George Sokolsiy' writes enters taining ly on the "Fallacy of Unification by Fore" and quotes many historical facts to prove his first statement that it "has never worked successfully over large areas of ized peopl he terms. "unify corked successfully," "large area civilized," ete, are each capable, lof such a range of definition that fan argument on the subject might tweil he interminable were it not For the breaks that Mr. Sokolsky. himself has 20 carelessly made; for, starting out with "civilized people," in his second illustration to prove hhis point he cites the failure of Rome to "hold the northern Dar parians (italics mine) in pence." It true that Rome finally failed and fell but it was after a thousand years of world leadership and out-fand-out "unification by force. Whether or not Rome "worked suc~ cessfully" in her unification of the world may be answered by the grim statement that Rome legions worked successfully" in eliminating, any and all parties who cared to dispute the said unification Tu Mr, Sokolsky's third illustre. tion Genghis Khan is cited and shown up as a failure, but not many of your readers will admit that his domain was over civilized peoples.
Again Mr. Sokolsky makes wy smile when he dismisses the Civ War in the United States asa "minor military engagement" ant the forces employed in uniting Ge many and Italy ws unimportant!
ade of Garibaldit Tu short, part of Mr. Sokoluky"s iMustrations do not illustrate and the other parts are calmly explained Finally when we speak of fication by force we generally Ienve lout of reckoning such reigns of terror as instituted by an Alva which are short-lived even in savage tribes.
Tt might be retorted that if unite fication by force hax not worked successfully, without force it has Inover existed at all.
Mr. Sokolsky then digs up the troubles that occurred in. the reign of the Manchus to prove that their unification of China by force was a failure, If Tread my Chine Jose history aright China was more thoroughly and completely—unified Manchu force than by any other, Jageney before or since, and whatever remains. of political glory to-day is a direct relic of the forcefulners of the grea: Chien Lung. Her disintegration to-day is due solely to the lack of forceful leadership.
Tam not claiming that only bloody tyrant can-unify China, but [dare to express the opinion' that unification will come only when. the present Tuchuns are swallowed alive by some super-Tuchun who has not yet appeared on the scene When once such a man is revealed will sco him welcomed and ale most deified by China's imme: Population and here's to his early Lam not poking fun at the hongs, uilds and Chambers of Commerce from which some still hope to see China's salvation come, but these. Takes the place of seed in some|will be the first to kotow to a real hho-man who can will rule force fully.
The one thing that the Chines have always demanded in a ruler is force. If he is wise and just, all the better, but the one characteristic the must possess for the unification Jof China is force to the utmost,
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