This much can be said for Dr. C.C. Wa's "The Nationalist Programme for China" published by. the Yale University Press, that it is a frank, unabashed, un afraid statement of what the Nationalists believe is China's case. There is none of the propagandist's editing of essentials. Dr. Wu says that this what we believe; this is what we expect and the rest of the world must take it or leave it.
Foreigners will often disagree with Dr. Wu's interpretation facts and his general assumptions with regard to Sino-foreign relations, but we do know that most of the members of tha: Kuomintang hold the—san opinions as Dr. Wa expresse! this book and that therefore it is most useful to find them pubished, so that they may be read and discussed. Not since the two volumes written by Mr. Tang Leong-li has there been so honest and faithful a restatement of the Kuomintang creed.
In an attempt to explain the differences, or perhaps bette: still, the movement from the: tutelage period to democracy, Dr. Wa trifles slightly with the time element. Although to a reader living in China, it is quite apparent that certain de-, mocratic institutions are I ultimate aims of the Kuomintang, the reader in the United! States may assume that these conditions already exist. Still that will be his fault, for Dr. Wu nowhere misrepresents the situation in China. He may be over-optimistic; he may feel that international relations can be made the principal source of evil mn the country, but these are matters of opinion and after all, most Chinese who articulate at all, would agree with him—as wrotg-headed as it all may be, Tt is so much easier for all human beings to be Monists, te find a single cause for all things, a single cure, a single idea. But the world is very complex indeed and even if alt China's international problema were cived how would that effect the floods of the northern rivers which are bound to follow the winter shows and to bring wisery and hunger to millions of people and disorder to a great agricultural country?
Finally, the following paragraph must be quoted:
What means are we going to employ to get these treaties changed? We have declared time and time again that we will use only legitimate means, that we Ret according to the principles of international law.
Again (page 100):
Meanwhile, the Nationalist Government will do all power to protect foreign life and property according to the generally accepted roles of international
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