This air of bright indifference certainly is not justified by events; but neither is the foreigner's gay assumption that with Feng Yuhsiung out of the way and Botskevism discredited, all is well with the foreigner in China, A sober ysis of what has happened yields one little more satisfaction than the sense of comfort and re-tease from anxiety that has follow.
the local silencing of Comrade Karakhan's paid agents, That there is good reason for the Russian Reds to foe! decidedly chagrined is obvious; but in exchange for the money they have squandered in China they have probably learned some valuable Jessons in Chinese polities and Chinese psychology, and it is doubtful indeed if the rest of us can show a return in wisdom upon the cost to us of the Soviet's activities in China. If Karalhan And any great number of hia subordinates and agents had come into China as communist propagandists, with the sole purpose of converting: China to their political creed; or if the success or failure of their work had been entirely dependent upon the erection on Chinese soil of a workable Soviet Republic, working in cooperation with Soviet Russia, then recent events in Canton and Peking would have meant the total loss of all invested money and effort. The anti-Rea reaction, which is now s0 popular from one end of the country to the other and which is even giving courage to a similar movement in Red Mongolia, would then have meant com-Plete' defeat. Actually, Russia's efforts in the East have been by no means futile and, viewing the situation from the Moscow Government's point of view, tremendous strides have been made in China and may still be made in carrying out the original purpose of all this expensive meddling. One has to understand the motives behind Russia's undertakings to gauge the:
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