As much as the Kuomintang has been condemned as a Bolshevik organization, an institution which has sold out to Russia and has served only to Keep the country in dis ruption, it must not be forgotten that here is the one organization which has kept before a large part of the articulate elements of the fon, the ideal of a tional Tt is Ferhaps unfortunate Kuomintang nationalism has taken on the worst forms of Euro-Bean chauvinism, that Kuomintang were have regarded nationalism and anti-foreignism as synonymous: nevertheless, the Kuomintang has broken down sectionalism wherever has been influential. It is in the Kuomintang that men of all provines meet on a common ground and it is almost certain that when that clement of the party which has been called "white" comes to dominate the whole organization, that this party will be nit against feudalism and which will ultimately destroy it.
The anti-foreignism of the Kuomintang and of other elements such as the student group has been an Smpediment to feudalism in that it has Kept the necessity of the appearance of unity before the public as the only means toward successful international relations. The Tariff Conference is a case in point. Many Chinese were opposed to the holding of the Tariff Conference at} this time because they felt that China was in such a horrible condition that the foreign Powers could not possibly accede to China's demands. They anticipated failure. 'Yet before the Conference began t> meet, tremendous forces were let ease' in Britain, the: United States and Jian to create an atmosphere favourable to China.
Tu the United States, the vast body of students conducted a propaganda on China' behalf which has had auch definite results. that the Chinese delegation in Peking was ready to take great risks because they were certain that the American Government could not
it on any proposition, unsatisfactory, American public opinion behind torChina.. The ramifications of the propaganda campaign, its magnitude and its effectiveness are one of the most amazing vhases of the present situation,
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