The next day Mr. Hu Han-min was} entertained by business interests at the Ritz, where he addressed a number of business "men who havel in China, He explained lat we had regarded as a revolution was now at an end, and those representing China were in a Position to ask us and other countries to ce-operate with them in their Schemies of reconstruction. He said they should not be regarded as revolutionists, but as reconstructionists.
Their movement, he said, was of very old standing, originating before 1911. The thinking people in China had recognized that they could not get any improvement under the Manchu Goverment, and they had to An Equitable Basis"
There had been unfair treaties in the past; but so far as Great Britain was concerned, China had been assured that relations should be put} on an equitable basis.
Tt had previously been the custom for Turkey to be called the sick man of the Near East, and China the sick man of the Far East. Mr, Hu! Han-min remarked that it was curious thing that whilst China was on the side of the Allies during the war, the latter had not removed these In the case of rer, Who Was an enemy, the capitulations had already been cancelled, He said he thought. that} the people in Great Britain were apt to forget that China was a country about the same size of Europe, with a population considerably greater, and that the opportunities for mutual trade were enormous. He asked those who were in a pos tion to help, to do so. The co-opera tion of all would be welcome, and the Nationalist Government could not, but hope that those peoples possessing the greatest resources would not be found the most reluctant in among friendship.
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