July 26.
Nothing in experience is so stimulating and helpful as a knowledge of the figure we cut: in the sight of those- who intensely dislike us. In China, for instance, we should know very, much better what we were doing] jand we should be much more likely to evolve some sort of a positive policy if we could be, told from day to day what the! Bolshevist agents: said to ons another about us in their inform-1 and unguarded moments. We [should not be flattered certainly, but we should see a great number of gaps in our defensive) front which we can never hope! to see from behind our own es. The way the Reds think! when they think of China ought also to be of inestimable service to the Chinese factions which are now pledged to the elimination of Communist influence from China. For these several reasons an article which reproduce to-day by a certain Stetzki, who is presumably] the notorious Voitinsky, on the situation that has grown out of Nanking's revolt against Communist control of the Kuomintang, which this writer interpret a bourgeois rebellion against) a movement to liberate the workers and peasants, ought to be) the subject of careful study by every foreigner and Chinese who has any reason to be interested jin the future of this country.
Since the article was written for the edification of Communists in Germany there is, of course, jo great deal of mendacious propaganda in it just as there would it were written for radical of British labourers; but the auth—or is nevertheless much franker -|on the subject of the purpose jand practice of the Soviet in China, and sums up the situation as he sees it much more honestly, than any Red would if tee. public In China, he were writing for the general] tells how
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