But let me say this: I would not ike it to be thought by anyone who here representing a definite interest that that Is any reason why we [should not from time to time stir them up in Parliament. Because my experience of Parliament is that the more you stir up Civil Servants the better it is for the administration.
T am sure that is an argument that will be favourably received by those who represent the great commercial Interests of the East around these] tables.
Nor should my friend the Chinese Ambassador think, from what 1 have Sald—beeause I might quite unwittingly have give the impression—that the British lion replete and at times appearing to some people to be almost half-witted, with his tall curled round him—let him not think that he is not liable to wake up and make himself unpleasant to those countries who have made themselves unpleasant to him. Though that does not fopply to China and ourselves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.