The Washington Conference was an attempt to right wrongs and to start out on new lines. Now. that we are in the actual process of trying to work out many of the proposals and decisions that were adopted at Washington, there is naturally a certain amount of confusion. America, for example, is having considerable trouble in adapting herself to the great routh. Great Britain is having considerable trouble in adapting her people and government to the new status of the Empire that has come about since the Great War. The Chinese people are sound at their foundations. Our social and economic institutions which have been developed through the centuries are not to be scrapped in a day; neither are they to be changed unduly until our people are firmly convinced that changes are for the greater happiness and well-being of the people. In the past we have been greatly handicapped in our reforms because of outside aggression. Many of our rights have been lost not only through outside aggression, but because of the ignorance or short-sightedness of some of our leaders. Now, with a change in world attitude and the dawn of an enlightened public opinion, we hope for better days. "There is no question of American friendship and faith in the ultimate destiny of China. This has has been exemplified in numerous ways in the past, but most vitally in the results of the Washington Conference to which I have referred. The burden of proving true to our friends, of proving ourselves worthy of this confidence, rests largely with us, We have got to take a serious interest in the wel-are of our country. We have got to work hard to make our country the nation its great territory and people entitle it to be. We must ce-operate to set our house in order. We must place the interests of our nation over and above those of our_own or of any political party. If we do our part, I am sure that our friends will do their part in extending the assistance which we may require. Upon the consciousness of responsibility on the part of our own university students rests a strong China. Upon the disinterestedness of American University men rests the perpetuation of good understanding between these two nations. Finally, upon the ce-operation of both of them rests the creation of a genuine desire for peace.
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