1 The major subject of erticim in country, as I view them, are] tobe divided under five head 1. Conditions arising from inherent, purely Chinese characteris '3. Conditions arising from the impact of Western political, econ-foreign and Chinese ignorance of each other's fundamental concepts fe, purposes and historical back-
Tt is not incans! out to criticize factors ming under the fifth for instance, and the same time excuse those coming!
mer the second or third. Te vot inconsistent to condemn Chinese, one must do so, under the frst, atthe same time condemn foreigners under the fourth. The} real inconsistencies of certain foreign publicity isthe wholesale condemnation of "Chinese under factors belonging to all five cate-stories, or on the other hand of unjequivoeably condemning all foroignfers and their works. Fortunately, charged with this far more blameworthy inconsistency.
But it ig not the themselves which are at fault, proded they are sincere and genuine; it is the constant reiteration, ing, mud-slinging that accompanies them that is reprehensible. In the' course of the past year I have had. ample time to reflect the deep injury' done to British trade and interests in China by the perpetual bickerings, snarlings, fault-findings and abuse aimed at, Chinese by just such persons as yourself, Mr. Rasmussen Astounded I have observed that the rantings, smugness, superior attitudes, snob-hishness," and gratuitous advice characteristic of newspapers such as you edit were not only provocative, ill-founded and anachronistic! in thie day and age, but also upon no indictment made against China was the West itself free from guilt almost identical instances. other words, that the mirror held up to China could just as well be held up to the West and reflect the same images.
T have been astounded at the impertinences of just such writers as] yourself in presuming, upon the basis of no experience whatever in government, none but hearsay know-edge of statesmanship, and often in partial ignorance or disregard of leither Chinese or your own. pol history, to advise China upon how! run its government, and grotesquely chastising the foreign offices of Europe and America because they appear to refuse to] jerry out your amusing recommendations.
T have witnessed the evil results lot one-sided, tiresomely uniform, creating bitterness between -forelgners and Chinese in the course of what should otherwise be peaceful daily vocations by filling the minds of thousands of foreign readers, who depend upon fand believe in the news gathering] integrity of newspapers, with perverted ideas and reports of Chinese Jand their institutions, An UnsBritish Attitude have witnessed the logical, Jeyelical results of this un-British policy—un-British because it isto possess amphibian characteristher fairplay nor sportsmanlike—tics, jin the gradual focussing of anta- place ug a gonism upon British people and merchants, British institutions and British concessions, while other equally culpable under the indictment of aggressive have suffered' comparatively T have discussed the anti-British phase of the recent troubles with many responsible Chinese, _conservative and liberal, even when the Jcommunict intrigue was at its zenith and never once did they fail to make Jout a perfectly clear and ample case) quite independent of what Moscow. may or may not have wanted to do the British position in China, And in nearly every instance their bitterness was traceable and expressly attribut®d to the arrogance, [superior postures and intolerance of ithe British press.
I have read the amusing con-Jcoctions of publicists possessed of God-given "consistency" explaining away upon the "collapse of Nation-"and its evaporation into various sorts of mists, og though party nomenclature were a substance instead of a definition. And in the meanwhile I have observed in numerous ways that whether the new China movement: is called Nationlism, people's movement, modern-sin, or what not; such a movement: definitely exists, is growing and is stronger in the minds and hearts of adherents than ever before. The new nationalism is not a mere colleen j tion of slogans; it is a state of mind, a new philosophy and will] find "expression regardless academic designations. That it is evolutionary in process as well as revolutionary in principle should be readily observable to anyone not thinking in dust-laden formulae and [pedantic platitudes.
The New British Policy I have had sufficient contact with Chinese in the past year to observe that the new British policy, as out-Tined"in the December Memorandum,
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