At this point it may be worth) while to recall the circumstance: under which the Amerian Govern. ment denounced its rights under! the Capitulations with Turkey. The! [Chinese judicial system, it will be Sdmitted, does not suffer the least comparison with that of Turkey! at the time of the abolition of the Capitulations. And, if the American Government, realizing that the! Turkish people's legitimate aspire ations, under the guidance of the: new and strong Government, could ish great things in a short} had the wisdom ana to relinquish—special protection; the American Govern. ment which, in ina justice to the Turkish people, relinquished those] rights without' any apprehension, will no doubt solve the problem of; extraterritoriality in Ghina in the same friendly and—sympathetic spi Tt has been perhaps brought to the knowledge of the American [Government that the Chinese!
Government has recently concluded treaties with several other Powers: which have agreed to relinquish extraterritorial privileges on January 1, 1980. If it has appeared! to the Government of those Powers, fas it appears to the American Government, that there does not yet] exist in this country a judiciary] capable of rendering justice to their!
jonas and a body of laws adequate to give protection to the life and property of their nationals, they would certainly have refused to give up their privileges of protection and enter into the agreement they have made. Now that many of the Powers which participated in the discussion of extraterritoriality Jat. the Washington Conference have already resolved, by an overt act. that that system has outlived its usefulness and should be replaced by one in harmony with the actual state nations, there fs no reason why the United States, upon which fell the fnonour to initiate the labours of that conference, should not act. in unison with those Powers, thus removing the difficulty which the Chinese Government mizht other-encounter in extending ju tion to all foreign nationals.
Immediate Discussion Demanded It is the hope of the Chinese JGovernment that wat conditions
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