Since he has been here, Chang Teo-lin has made no overt attempt to cultivate the foreigner. If he had, the people would be smirking fat us ingratiatingly, He ha" shown a determination, however, not to be unfriendly, no matter how he considered himself injured by the lack of foreign support, and to be cor-reetly polite in all circumstances
the people everywhere show in their this isthe mental attitude which manner. They are simply good tempered and polite unless one shows an inclination to be overtly friendly, when they promptly show {inclination to respond. Persons who did not have reason to travel about this countryside two years ago can have no idea what a tremendous change in the whole atmosphere of Peking this implies.
The Peking attitude is, moreover, one that seems to be spreading very rapidly over China, according to travellers from all quarters; and everywhere for the same reason. There is a general conviction abroad that, even while antioreigniam did not bring upon the country the: disastrous reprisals that right have Doon expected, it netted many losses, and no gains. It promised to yid China a great accretion of "face' The gains in this respect were wil, while the revelations of the fashion In which the one perfect race under heaven had been lod around by Moscow's agents by the nose and made to go through antics that dissgusted all humanity have entailed Toss of face which can only be redeemed by the blood of the unhappy Communists, the scape-goats of the whole foolish ebullition.
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