Senator Bingham's only original comment is upon the authorship of tthe lectures as they have been pub-Ushed. He is not fully coavineed that Dr. Sun wrote them in their present form. One gathers that the senator finds them at once too absurd and too malicious to be the work of a man whom the most i telligent young men in China, including a great number of seeming Jy clover men with Occidental de. grees, profess to revere as a political ' prophet. Senator Bingham thas been here and has convinced himself that the cleverest men ha met do profess to regard Dr, Sun as the founder of the movement that is to regenerate China throug' the application of the political doctrines Inid down in this very book. Now Senator Bingham has read the book and finds no diffeulty in ay-Praiging it, It is full of dangerous rubbish. Tf this is the enuing work of the leader whom the elaverest foreign-trained men profess to reverse and follow, how is ove appraise the mea and the movement. which they are forwarding without confessing outright that they are anything but what they seen superficial acquaintance?
Senator Bingham prefers not push the matter so far but to doubt the genuineness of the text. He motes that Dr. Sun died in 1924 and that the Soviet Russians were then, The American newspaper reader is wholly unaware of any Amer-tean commercial stake in Chins, existing or potential, and therefore knows no good reason why any American other than the missionary should be here at all. The Amer-can public moreover detests tha American who lives in a foreign land without an overwhelmingly good excuse, so no sensational zest ture to the mob could be safer thea tone that calls down impracatione the foreigner resident in the East. As it happened, morcuver, America was sharing with the world fan interest in China at the very time when Senator Bingham was looking for a stage upon which he could cut sufficient capers to focus publicity upon himself without ing either ridicule or hostili home. Finally it suited the leaders. of his party for someone to ealle: t here the kind of impressions that would seem to justify the Govern. ment's policy, or lack of on2. So Senator Bingham both visited, and was visited upon us, The Turn of the Tide The senator's revised attitirie, pointed out, is traceable in part to the fact that he has got his pubplicity, has won his spurs, and can now afford to pay a little deferens? to his own intelligence; and rartly to the fact that the American atti. tude towards Chinese "Nationslism" has altered to such a markd de. gree that one who wishes to remain popular authority upon Chinese affairs may now cautiously venture to explain why rejuvenated China is something of a disappoia: ment, how and why the Soviet influence was so strong; and why symosthetie understanding of calculated anti.
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