The Archive · 1929

The Help That Is Needed

China needs financial help, technical assistance and advice, and, persps it may be added moral support in her efforts to. transform her civilization' at an unexampled pace. She has obtained all these things from, the rest of the world during the. period of the Revolution but} only in a fitful, half-hearted and haphazard' fashion. Perhaps the reason was partly that she had no one to speak clearly in her name and did-not know exactly what she wanted, But the last two years have at any rate clarified her problems'and made both China and the world realize more fully where cooperation is possible. Is not the time approaching when a. survey may be made of her needs and the means of satisfying them be more scientifically studied than heretofore? Should not the various foreign instruments which she is ready using be more closely coordinated so that they may assist one another more easily in their various duties? May not the various. kinds of international assistance: which have been developed in the last ten years be of some uso to her and make more effective the struments she already possesses The Only War with Treatios may be objected that such a policy is impossible while China in controversy with the Powers and particularly with Britain, America and Japan over the rights which they possess in China. But may not the way to secure China's interests be rather along the path of cooperation than a mere passive acquiescence in her demands? The legal and financial problems that arise out of the "unequal trea are in part fundamental diffeul that cannot be solved merely by paper agreements, They involve the whole process of the creation of the new Chinese Commonwealth and the development of its economic: resources. To obtain for such a tas the assistance of the best brei 8 well as the material resources of other countries, to benefit from their experience," to enlist th sympathy and enlightened criticism, a task worthy of the most far sighted and patriotic statesmen. Miya not be attempted i Why should it not be att in

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