I know your polemical gifts too well go I will pass on to your statement:
Tt is, diMieult to believe, that both expressions of opinion can be since Rething has happened=no startling historical discovery has been. made—Justify such a complete volte face, This jg where you are wrong, and where the entire inverted pyramid of your laboriously jumbled juxtposition of related and unrelated quotations from my writings tumbled from its precarious base.
lething has happened", you say. Possibly you are right. " Nothing' has happened, that is if we omit the British December Memorandum; the rise of the Nationalist move-the Chen-O'Malley Agreement; the relinquishment of Hankow British Concession; the discussions of a similar destiny for Tientsin's British Concession; the rise and fall of Communist intrigue Chi the Nanking incident; the arrival of the Shanghai Defence Force; the beginning of the end of subsidized Christian mission work; the Soviet Embassy raid, and the dwindling of British trade, Apart from these and the not unrelated fact of a world-wide re-examination of tke foreign position in China with a dawning conseiousness on the part of the West that its inaccurate, preconceived notions and clumsy methods of dealing with Chinese were possibly not well grounded and were in need of revision—in other words the growth of a new occidental pragmatism—mart from these, there has been nothing" of more than passing! significance,
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