It has to be recognized that China carmot achieve much in either direetion without financial assistance from abroad, and they must see ample evidence of activity in the directions indicated before they will attempt to sell Chinese bonds on the money makers, It ix clearly these necessities which have influenced Mr. T. V. Soong, Mr. Sun Fo, Mr. Chang Ching-kiang and Dr. ©. T. Wang to push their respective programmes at the terrify speed which is now causing anxiety among foreign students of Chinese affairs.
But the fact remains that speed is an absolute necessity, for if this moment of good-will is lost, it may not return for a decade.
The foreign bond-holder would naturally prefer some form of contralization akin to a dictatorship, because he wants responsibility and security—so does the Chinese banker. The confusion of councils and com-the waste of time and effort lative bodies may be of no nations, but post-revolutionary con-China require a napoleonic, a Bismarekian concentration of power.
The Drawback of Size this argument arise many fact rst of all, is the immensity of the size of China and Che paucity of communications. Even Napoleon fell when his line extended from Spain to Moscow. Bismark never attempted more than Germany, which is the size of a Chinese province. Turkey is a small, secondary country, no longer the Great Empire which men still automatically recall from their school-day memory when they think of the land that Kemal Pasha rules. rly, Italy is not only a comparatively, tiny place, but its communications are excellent and its governmental established. services well-
Stalin does not dictate 1 political machine by the agency of an exceedingly limited democracy.
The Centre Party Dictatership dictatorship unsuited to China in its present militaristic phase, because if once even the fiction of a popular sanc~ is removed, the Dictator would immediately become involved in the: mere business of holding his job' against aspirants from among the other militarists. Even aa it the only effective factions in the Kuomintang to-day are grouped about military leaders; if the sanetion of Dr. Will and the Saw Min Chie I were removed, if the dictatorship of the during the frst two stages of the revolution were denied, then nothing would remain to differentiate the neo-militarism of the present from the militarism of the Chihli Party.
The trend towards dictatorship is then little more than a reversion t9 type, a return to characteristic Chinese feudalism.
Again, it must be noted that such a system is understandable by the Chinese, to whom the benevolent. ruler—the despot, if you please, is quite a Confucian political doctrine. Whereas, the Chinese masses will submit' to such a ruler, they will also not resent other benevolent despots fighting for his territory. Thus, again one returns to inevitable fighting under this system, fighting -which can only bring untold harm and misery China.
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