The Generalissimo's full message follows:—
With the introduction of steamships railways, wireless and airplanes, international relations have steadily undergone vast changes so that what} takes place in one country is. soon broadcast and known in all others.
It has often been rightly pointed out that, if peoples have more infotmation'about China now, they have also more misinformation; belter known is China, but not better understood.
From the very start of her Republican career, China has striven to secure national unification within and. international equality " without, a justifiable aspiration that is inherent. in any'awakening nation, Issues involved ju this transition from the old to the new order, based on the new conception of national and social life affecting her home, government, and interested foreign Powers—have five birth to such an unusually complicated situation within the country that an impartial and objec~ tive Judgment from outside is not. only dificult but almost impossible.
Thus, China's struggle for real national existence and. for modern late hood has more often than not. been misinterpreted, deliberately or otherwise. Even to-day, China 1s still being denounced in certain quarters as a highly chaotic nation, incapable of exercising its administrative authority, unable to maintain peace and order within its territory.
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