The prospect of using Soviet Russia to weld China together communist state and.at the same time ward off intervention from Japan or the Occident, some months ago seemed very attractive to the great body of the articulate Chinese people. The assumption always of course, that the Chinese, being. the cleyerést- people in. the; ' world, could get, rid of. the whenever they wanted to. They havevhathin the pasb: the* sine iden about the many different breeds of aliens whom they have invited into their country to do their fighting for them, straighten out their affairs for them and who eventually, became their rulers and exploiters.
They were going to use Russia, but they were much too clever to let Russia "devour" them. Much of the ostentations good will towards the Soviet was, of course, purchased., So was much of, the frenzied opposition to the "imperialistic". Powers. But a great de of it was officially inspired and was founded on the old ides that foreign. policy consisted in playing the les dangerous "barbarian against the more dangerous ones.
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