The Archive · 1926

Bold Statement of Rebellion

This is the statement of rebellion against what whole foreign community, outside the diplomatic circle.' The Americans are not the only ones that grumble and fume. The British have recently had a great Seal to say about the statements elicited from Sir Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons and the very similar surveys of feonditions that have appeared in the London "Times;" and have been almost as warm in their comments upon what they conceive to be the inspirational common source here in Peking as the Americans are in their resentment of Mr. Julean Arnold's speech. The British, of course, temper thei treason by saying that under postwar economic conditions Europe perforce follows America's lead and that American folly is at the bottom of international folly in China, a charge which is partly but} by no'means wholly true. Domestic polities in England and financial problems in France and Japan have a lot to do with"the policy of these" respective Powers which is so galling to. their nationals here. What the foreign communities actually can do by yuited effort towards shaping policy to suit their tastes and needs one could possibly say, but it does seem certain that opinion among outlanders of all nationalities and degrees is rapidly working up to a point where a determined attempt will be made to convey messages to the homelands through other than this prominent American describes conventional misrepresentation that the|which will. diplomatic channels, horrify diplomacy, writer has so far heard in Peking,|startlo home governments, divert but it does express in clear terms the unformed opinions of many and the Occidental populace and give! the Chinese a very serious fright,

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