Nov.
Wir the publication to-day of Z's letter, the correspondence on "The Unequal Status" Mis to be closed, as the conwoversy can lead to little profit. therefore, comment} ideas and the point} perhaps we do not much disagree as we do not altogether have confidence in the Same institutions. F.D, Z. apparently would favour interven-ition if he were assured that the "interveners were men of noble character, whose only interest! would be to restore order, to suppress militarism and to help ie mute masses of this country, he could find such foreigners, phe would favour their serving fnhis country, but in his mind ays the suspicion that if the fdveigners came to help China, they would stay to hurt. her, Iherefore, on the whole, he is opposed to their coming.
Perhaps F. D. Z's reservation prompted by the type of foreigner he has met in China. In Who past, there have been such arriers between Chinese and Hjoreigners, that few of the best} jen on either side have met free-Wy. Few Chinese have travelled extensively in western country and those who have not have necessarily to take their view of western culture second-hand or} from the nether strata of westerners in China, It is not, therefore, to be wondered at even when a Chinese wants us to join with him in extirpating, militarism and piracy, in restor-Jug government and in bring China into her proper place among nations, that he should have misgivings. But F. D. need but read history to see for unself how it has been done loewhere. After the Spanish-merican War, the United States eld Cuba. The country was resurrected, organized and, as spon as it was able to maintain itself, full sovereignty was restored to it, Similarly after the Great War, some of the E open nations found themselves Jin such difficulties that they could hardly maintain either their sovereignty or their solivency. Poland, Austria, Hungary were saved by commissions under the League of Nations, and directly they had been restored to strength the intervener left the country, asking nothing in return but to benefit by the superior conditions and the opportunities to trade which they afforded. The supreme example is perhaps the Dawes Plan by) which Germany was made solvent and her position strengthened, so that to-day the German mark has a guarantee behind it in spite of its appalling collapse luring and immediately after the ar. Why then should China fear?
In the event of the Powers coming in to help China, the best brains of Europe and' Ameri I would be devoted to the task. to the bringing of peace and Jorder to all nations. They would apply their administrative skill to the rehabilitation of China. And when they had finished their, task, they would return to their countries, with the eternal gratitude of the Chinese people, just ae Mr. Jeremiah Smith left Hungary perhaps the best beloved foreigner who had ever served that count If the suspicions, the constant grinding on irritants of the past, the fallacious arguing of mooted points ceased and men rather worked together for some reconstructive end, a way could be found to save China, What is the alternative? Endless struggles between militarists, the rise and fall of mediocre men, the constant increase in the suffer-_ ings of the mute ma: the emergence of every form of, charlatanry, the eventual di memberment of the nation among powerful satraps and Jworse still, perhaps a great international war, involving all nations! It is a dark picture and perhaps F. D. Z. has suggested one plan which might relieve it. If the Chinese and foreigners unite against China's enemies, militarism, greed and insincerity, there may be a way! out of the' chac
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