The Archive · 1926

Consistency the Hirst Need

The belief seems to be that if Great Britain evolves a consistent policy of resistance to China's unreasonable clamour for at face" all costs, America, believed of the responsibility of taking the i tive, will fall in line and thai fevers, the out essential condition to tion from her military" speter and if Mx, Lampson can achieve he will be doing China a service which she will never appreciate, but the magnitude of which the Chinese people will very shortly make manifest to the world. We have to hope for something and this the only} ope left, ro the diplomatic folk in Peking are making much of it.

Gen, Tan chun of Hunan and command chief of the 2nd Kuomintang Army fw Canton, hus been requested write the inscription on the stone to be placed in the cemetery in Chapel where the bodies of the] Nanking Road vietime sve wiried. This stone will be known the "Memorial Monument for the Martyrs of the May 30 Incident. Gen, Tan is a well-known Chinese eholar and is a Henlin of the old choel, this degree being granted to sim during the Manchu réyine. 8 also acting chairman of the Kuomintang Central Executive Jommittee and his writing are neatly valued,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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