The Archive · 1930

Intervention Plan for China

Williamstown, Mass., Aug. 28

Sparks flew at the Institute - of Politics to-day on the question ct intervention in China, Mr, Charles Bachelder, former Chief of the Far Eastern Divisioa of the U.S. Department of Commerce and also once U.S, Commercial Attache in China, said that foreign intervention may soon become necessary in China, There is a growing feeling, ne asserted, that something of thi sort must be done for humanitarian Mr, Bachelder suggested that 200,000 foreign troops, assisted by food native Chinese troops, would be able to restore order throughout the country, He estimated the cost of this at G$500,000,000, which might, in his opinion, be secured as a loan based on the customs and the salt revenues of China, Most of the money could be spent in disbanding the various Chinese armies and putting in needed work on highways and railways, accord to the speaker, He admitted, however, that the United States it traditionally opposed to -intervention.

Mr. Stephen Duggan said tha> much of the China trouble is to be attributed to the influence of Amer-tean schools in China, and also to the fact that students are impregnated with the principles of demo-racy and nationalism.

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