An amusing example of the great importance of football in youthful eyes has been given by a Scottish public school boy. On the occasion of the recent Scotland versus Wales Rugby match in Edinburgh, his family had a visit from some English friends, who were taken a motor trip. "They were very touchy," said the boy; "when we were passing Bannockburn they refused to be interested or even look at anything." Then he added with amazement, "One might imagine it had been the site of a Rugby match at which they had been licked!"
Mr. Bertrand Russell on the Far East: Give China a Breathing Space March 14, The Hou. Bertrand Russell, #R.8., has on a visit to Scotland, lecturing upon the international problems of the Far East under the auspices of tha League of Peace and the Union of Democratic Control. lu his first address, which was delivered in Edinburgh, he said that China was at the woment the centre of world politics. Who was to have the ex-plaiting of that great country? Who was to have the wealth that the industrious Chinese produced? One of the blackest records that the Powers had was their dealings with China. Since the war Japan had Seen so much the greater aggressor that the aggressions of other na-tious sunk into imsignificancs by comparison, Crna axp Mopsern Epvcarion.
China had only lately begun to have modern education, but those Chinese who had had a modern education were very largely capable of taking up the affairs of China and making it a really progressive and peaceful nation. He believed that if China were allowed by the Powers to have a breathing space of some 10 or 20 years, all the bad government and inefficiency that there had been in the past would disappear with extraordinary rapidity.
America only of the Powers had a clean record in China. The Americans believed in the principle of the open door. He did not think, however, that the -principle of the open door and equal opportunities in China for the other nations was at all adequate. It did not safeguard Chinese independence, it did not preserve Chinese civilization, and it did not prevent the draining of China's wealth by other nations.
He thought there was little hope
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