1 know how the Chinese mind! works and I know perfectly well that all of my Chinese friends will agre: that in these disagreeable assertions T am sound and right, but. that they. will feel that Tam robbing them of "face," more essential than life. If we. could only get rid of this passion for "face" it would be the simplest matter in the world to this situation, since non: of it as the average morning I rode with a riesha ce from the north bank of the Yanztze. He asked me for news and then aid: "Laoyeh, ni-men yang-jen_wei shen-mo pu kung-kuan?" This means: "Excellency, why can't you foreigners intervene?" Duly startled by this challenge, I inquired into his history. Tt was the usual one. He bandit persecution, a foreign-controlled having lost his wife and children. He was a gentleman and s Confuclanist scholar. pursued by a "uni tion of filthy coolies who had never worked and never would. He ex. pressed the hope that he would sor day be permitted to pull a, riesha fsa last resort, without, "union' interference. I promised him that Jour cowardly "homeside" politicians would in due course be superseded and that we should eventually rescue China from her destroyers, How many of my fellow nationals are! ready to help me make this promise good?
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