Olive Branch pleted a four years' research into often complaint has to be the offal its of the heart of 200 married men and women of middle made of official and military short class circumstances. The majority anything that tells in their were between the ages of 30 and favour, From not distant pro-40, and had been married from five vince, which had until recently been (0 15 years.
Most of the attach-had un ie Bureau makes, this. trenchant s&ehedly overbearing, with foreign: jmenty mats, it transpires, took place be~ It tran but 29 husbands and ers, comes an account of a change Our correspondent 41 of the wives admitted that their "That the existing system of oF-ives two instance The day before affections had strayed from the ganization of the Nationalist Go: the chief of the water polic who home circle.
Foch of the 200 reernment makes no provision for the @mmands a few armed ceived cards on which were a num. definition of the rights and obliga~ Jaunches and a large number of fast! ber of typewritten questions, there tions of the people, or the relation rowing boats, had called to say ho being altogether 40 cards and 400 between the Central and Local waz now able to assure protection questions.
'One card was known Governments, or the—relations for all mission Since the "love affairs card "The between the Rarty and Government, March, 19 itoficais have coldly one for women oaked them for 8 Even in 20 far as the regulation of ied' loaf and this: wus, the frat (list of all the. "boys" with whom the various government organs unfriendly gesture our correrpondert they had been in Tave, ether before der the present system is concerned, had seen since that date. Second!
Vor after, thelt own parriage; if only the names of the various or-vis that very late a nish the "boy" was older or younger eans are mentioned and no provi two before he had been called than themselves; the colour of his tion is made regarding their oF- upon by a Chinese official asking eyes and hairs whether he was ganization and functions. is|if he might borrow our" o-rre hart or tall, thin, plump, or fat; plain that such a system is in- pondent's fast motor-boat, to send i¢- he rubled the girl's) father Adequate to enable the people 0 ut on some very urgent business or brother in disposition, and the understand the form of the Revolas Last year (gars the writer) the precise extent of their efting" tionary Government." mail tary ingly came and took on Br speckings In no wise strange To the legal mind, especially, the boats, went out to chase pirates and to relate, the investigation showed irresponsible power of the Kuo-let our boats drift when dene wit that throughout the thirties the mintang Central Executive Com-He wonders whether this is! women were little more active than mittee must be anathema, That "a sincere move inspired from the the men: but in the next decade autocracy, it plainly indicates, Chinese government or merely they definitely outdistanced them. must be brought under control, Mtn yur nad he inclined sri e Consider the Whole, process and a Constitution is the only tary ge eae ole or both At {at unwarranted intrusion wpe ete ge' a hin was a bit of both Atl trcty" private matters. Conca that, in the heyday of the we are aware, the Fifth Plenary Nationalist Government on the Session passed no resolution on tion of the still ceeupied la 18°! sformons, a card system was almost sion indispensable in looking after one's the memorandum, and business promises in inking! family, we can see no earthly ex-The root of all Nanking's We Fe realy to believe the teat cense for the "love affairs card" in political problems is to be found int not, got the troops and others They cannot, rather than: <u" For Me tence, the more 30 in the self-perpetuating charac-as the net result of the inves cut, In provincial districts the ter of its Central Executive Comtigators' impertinence was to re-senior officials tend to be by no fal that the woman of 40 wants mittee and its Political Council. means unfriendly.
No Government in the modern their efforts to discover this it of watching. Tt needed not world can possibly be self-per= petuating and hope to hold the
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