Lord Willingdon went on to speak in praise of the energy and enter.
which -had built up, Shanghai] to be the great modern city that it was,'on the mere bit of swampy Tand which had ally been' granted to the first foreigners of the district for their place of residence. But he felt that a word of warring must be said as to the attitude into which foreigners might junconeiously lapse towards tte Chinese. He himself firmly believ-fed that there was no question of} absolute superiority by one set of people over another. Each had his own qualities and whereas one man might be superior in one re¥pect, another would be found superior in [something else, "For example" said Lord Willingdon "there is my friend Dr. ©. C. Wang. When he talks to me about} railway finance ang administ Iam appalled. by the superiority of his knowledge over anything can claim, But when we go out and play golf together as we did Inst Saturday, and I beat him by two holes, I feel my own superiority, restored. Again when I talk to my friend Dr. Hu Shih about literature and the philosophies of the payt, Tam overwhelmed by the superiority of his learning. But if we both get on horse-back for a race, I think I may advise you all to put your money on me. Again when my friend Dr. V. K. Ting, who I am sorry to say cannot be here to-night, inks of geology, I Jam amazed at the depth and breadth of his superior knowledge; but in matters of administration, I think that I can teach him something.
Quality not Colour believe that a gracious and kindly Providence has granted to each of us superior qualities in our respective lines over one another. But I also feel that those qualities were meant to balance and that wel were meant to cooperate with one another in order to keep the balance true, There is no essential super-ferity in a man's colour, white or black, brown or yellow: it is not the colour of a man which makes his superiority but the quality of the indi "In conclusion may I tell you the! faith that is in me. I believe there are two great duties which devolve upon each one of us in our course through life: frit, that we should each do our best to try to make the arid a little better when we leave it than it was ae we found it; and secondly, that we must each try place one brick upon the gre edifice of world peace which should, be the ideal of every man who lives upon this planet.
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