Feb, 16, Sir Austen Chamberlain's speeches have not always been popular in China. But that made at West Birmingham ought to have a different reception. It may be said to strike, not a new note, but an old one with new chime Where in time past the speaker has sounded cold and formal, he is now warm and human. Where once his thought seemed to move among visions devoid of substance, he is now alive with facts for, it may well be hoped, the greater realization of ideals. His speech at Birmingham should content his countrymen and surely can give no dissatis faction to Chinese. Nobody expects the policy so seriously pronounced in December, 1926, to be reversed; and Sir Austen's public re-affirmation of it is the natural consequence of the expulsion of the Russians who did most to wreck it. The only valid objection to that policy was that facts which made it temporarily impossible seemed to have been left out of account. Possibly this criticism was ill-founded; plainly there is no the active anti the Chinese revolution has passed," the country is shaken with anarchy; and Sir Austen
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