March 15.
Tue publication of the excellent results achieved by the League of Nations in setting the derelict nations, Austria and Hungary, on their feet suggests tous a dream of what would happen if China were lucky enough to have the League for foster father, It is only a dream, for China, in her present: mood, would not willingly place herself under any control even'
hee ed on it and there is no power on earth which would compel her to do so. Moreover, it is means certain that the league would undertake the task even if it were wholeheartedly offered to it, The thought is, therefore, only the unsubstantial fabric of dream but it is so attractive that we venture to present it to our readers as a relief to the anxieties inseparable from_a consideration of the unio of the present actual First then, were the League lof Nations to be entrusted with ithe government of this land, on the very day that the transfer of authority was made, peace would reign from Shanghai to Burma Jand from Mongolia to Canton. That is assuming—we may assume anything in a dream—that China had willingly placed herself under the tutelage of! the League and that the officers of the League had behind them the full power and authority of the nations that feompose that august body. Peace being established, the disarma-{ment and disbanding of the vast hordes of superfluous soldiers {mow devastating the country Would proceed apace. It is one of the peculiarities of the present situation that Chinese agitators
ism." by which they mean the hour aloud against the "imperial-militarism, of foreign nations and China has, at the moment, more men under arms than any ition in the world and is conducting the only great war that is taking place anywhere. Chinas military leaders have created a we can only play golf once a week, it is a thing to be looked forward to through all the other ix days. If we could play it day, it might become! merely an occasion of bad temper. A few fortunate people machine that threatens to bankrupt the nation and destroy those who brought it into existence. Feng Vu-hsiang, in the moment of his victory, laid down {his command and retired into a {safe place from which he re-
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