Wo need for the moment to forget that extraterritoriality ever existed and to look into the future requirements of Shanghai, not. from the point of view of our immediate selfish aims, but from the standpoint of leaving welcome legacy of harmony and goodwill among future generations. It is necessary to stress this because, while the Treaty Powers will, in the near future, be discussing with China the abolition of extraterritoriality, feeling is gaining ground among: foreigners that the interests of Shanghai can best be served by converting the Settlement into a kind of little Luxembourg or a Large Dantzig under" the wing of the League of Nations. Such a proposal is little short of fantastic; it would accentuate in my opinion every evil of the present system; it inconceivable that the League of Nations would burden itself such a task and it is certain that the Chinese would never entertain such an idea and, moreover, never agree to it.
There is a simpler'way and, to my mind, a more effective one. The solution lies in ce-operation between Chinese and foreigners. This may appear to be a trite and obvious reflexion, but the plain fact is that it hag never been tried. The question, of course, that will be asked is: "How can we obtain that cooperation which will-make for the future success of Shanghai?" This is not as difficult as it may appear to some or many; the principal requisite towards that end is for every foreigner who desires to live in China always to be mindful of the fact that whether we be Christ Jews, Mohammedans, Conins, Taoists and/or believers of other. religions or teachings, and whether we be nationals of America, Great Britain, China, Japan and of other countries, before' the Creator and Almighty Power of the whole universe we are all alike; we are taught from childhood to be upright and peace-loving, and to be s0 we must be tolerant' of the shortcomings of one another and it is my firm belief that if we were more tolerant towards each other in the future it would be the key to. the final solution of this problem.
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