No, Nothing has happened"; only the growing conviction within me. that the preposterous. clamour of foreign publicists that China was} all wrong and the gradual revela~ tion that the unbridled invectives of irresponsible British publicists, lung at the persons of Chinese leader is responsible for the position in which thei countrymen find themselves to-lay and my resulting decision that 1 for one was! no longer content to follow in. the wake of the noisy few whose long innings of abuse and calumny succeeded only in bringing about a steadily worsening condition, You could have done me no greater servic than by publishing] the views I once up held. It will Droadeast in a way I could not have achieved that I am only too thoroughly aware of the other side of the picture and that my present convictions were arrived at with full realization of the anti-Chinese point, of view. I might feot a sense of gratitude toward you for thug impressing upon the public the sisnificance of this, if I did not also feel that your assistance was quite unintended.
Revolution v, Bureaucracy You were careful to refrain from publishing anything from another Article of mine which appeared ime mediately afterwards in' the same magazine as the one you so lavishly note, Of that article, "Revolution Versus Bureaueracy", the editor of the "China Digest" "(on December: 25, 1926) wrote in a foreword:
Reniers of Me. Rasmussen's pre. wigue alle wil' remember that' Tefoted "wast bp considered. the une fable" areun sll Sonatluted" proponents of Chinese Bilan Toten fat hee a fotiention in anthorel apparent that Ste hetieven that i spite of the inept professed " evolutionary' fond fra hee than and" Feguen China "are" themselves strutting delve. their ageiontablems® by Frenne of reve sgsinst "a butane Tivenueraey. "Sie. "itasmuteen now tates up the Chinese ment see SSmputetcaly from is one Among other things T dealt with in. that" article there appear "the following:
The net result of this misguided toraien "potty during hoise century sto tnvsiee China Horse olena itr" milcting treating, ad' bet "hatch easy, "mith a" wagon fond pried: open by hordes of avaricious Commorelal spheres of interest.
Te Is not to be wondered, then, hat intelligent. and pat Spheres of (intereat amome themselves her, to. partition
Uke' so! many wolves over: a dead eat fciag "IN ie not to be wondered. that fevthowe things there should be kinds lea the spark of revolution a just rage o€ a bitterly ental shout cause their rulers, foreigners and them finally and aes eantatlygainat the corrupt Mancha For ton years (the Tuchuns) have nip sold the ovant remarcen station! tothe chest "pile, Thive. practically put them
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These statements are not merely they are which may be re pact and present Their use by me at least serves to prove that I tried to the! Chinese, or more particularly the Nationalist and modern Chinese point of view, while at the same time resenting unqualified condemnation of foreigners and. antiforeignism.
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