No clear headed Chinese ever did believe in reunification by conference or agreement of any sort and now no intelligent Chinese can believe in reunification by force. The last alternative, to be pushed as far into the background as possibi ig reunification with alien help not under- actual alien control.
In every generation in China from the beginning of time, there have been Chinese so convinced of their own superior cleverness that, they have thought to use the outsider in such situations as this to restore order for them with the idea of Sismissing him when his usefulness had come to an end. So, during the past year, an increasing number of leaders, beginning with Sun Yat-sen's successors in Canton and ending with Feng Yushsiang the North have sought to use the Soviet Russians, permitting—them to carrying on their seemingly Janti-imperialistic agitations the seatter-brained students and the ignorant workmen in exchange for arms, money and leadership. This filation seemed to each group: in Kuangtung, Honan and Chi particularly—to promise reunidation by the force of a powerful ally's expenditures and efforts and the same serious alien intervention.
Ten ago it appealed strongly to the imaginations of a very large proportion of the Chinese official caste very much as the employment of the Kin Tartars and of the Mongols once appealed to the weaklings of the Sung Dynasty and az the use of the Manchus later appealed.to Wu San-kuei and his colleagues.
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