'Theatres or Max 25, 1915. By G. Zay Wood. Formerly' editor of "The Far Eastern Republic." Curtis Fellow of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University. President of the Chinese Political Science Association. Fleming H, Revell & Ca.
"What are the Twenty-one Demands?" The twenty-one demands were contained in a document presented by the Japanese Minister to President Yuan Shih-kai on Jan-Wary 18, 1915, at a private audi-ace.
The author of this book analyses the treaty according to the tive roripa into which it is divided.
opens his discussion with a tatement in his foreword that his treatment is ''non-partisan and impartial," but this is just what it is not. The whole book is an} impassioned protest by a. Chinese patriot against the indignity offered to China both in the matter contained in the treaty and in the manner of its presentation. The author is perfectly justified i arguing from this standpoint. It would, indeed, be strange if he adopted any other, and it may be mid once that his argument carries the reader with him. For} thera is very little that could de advanced, even by the most enthusiastic Japanese, in justification of his country's action in formulate ing the treaty discussed in flits book. Japan chose the "'psychological moment" when Europe was deeply immersed in the great war to play her Jone hand in this adventure, and that she has lost the great game ig a proof that for nations og for individuals honesty remains the best policy, For the Twenty-one Demands infringed the rights of Britain and America only less than those of China, and that the Washington Conference has swept this document out of existence is a cause of thanksgiving in London and New York no lees than in Peking:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.