Phis stormy petrel of the modern dea of Chizese politics was but-an culated diatribes against foreigners, larly atoned for the continuous stream of his administrative crimes, in the eyes of the world-warshipping mtsia of his own country. Only the unfortunate actual victims Jof those crimes in Canton recognized the kignificanee of the glaring dislerepaney between oratory and action.
Yet why blame the Chinese for that extraordinary and universal posthumous gestitre to the memory of this Pied Piper? What strange obsession is it, in the minds of notable foreign observers of the high-lest training and experience of men, thet will Lead them also to mistake for greatness q mere diplomatic dexterity which is nothing more than' clever verbal fencing, in the representatives which China sends abroad.' Te: is not so many years ago that" Jauch @ keen.observer as My. Lloyd! [George, on the strength of a single
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