Ge This Is a well-documented and re~ Viable. discussion of the history and growth of Shanghai. It treals of the historical development of the three imunieipalities, their legal basis, their government and. their administrative furisdietion, "Tt also treats of those problems which have more than local Significance and are primarily interna-Vional. in character, and in that pro-cons the Sino-Japinese hostilities of 932 have a special chapter to. them-elves, The problem of rendition is examined andthe book as a whole fifords a useful guide to the view of competent, fair-minded and de~ (ached observer on Shanghai's past, present and future. Mr. Johnstone does mot conceal his opinion that the Inbour conditions in Shanghat are' exeeplionally open to rifleism, But that does not prevent him from ree-agnizing the merits of the " work. Which hag been done in building up this great city. He naturally shows how both sides o the problem of the Settlement have clung tenaciously to their own points of view, and. the arguments which this Journal ven fired" to put forward in critizing what It considered to be dangerous. proposals of slait retrenchment re~ ceive full" endorsement from his commendation of the Council's main Tenance of an efficient, well-organized free" from many in other large cities. In fact, he contends that if exitivism Is {0 be directed against the Settlement will be more on the account matiers of policy or questions of Sino-Foreign' relations rather than the functioning of the various departments of the Council. Mr. John= Stone recojinizes that the essentially Vapitalist basis of Shanghai must mnllitate against the ready acceptance of brand conceptions of the social ud economic functions of a govern ment, and he at once points out that change is likely to occur even when "rendition takes place, as the only change that he can foresee is the change from a. foreign business group toa Chinese business group with tke same standards. Te admits this. isa. pessimistic outlook, but asks indulgence Decauise of his con= vietion that:
there. i, hardly a ely, the Tile. tre" iving under "worse" conditions iirc tua i, Shara, ose any {nekdentaiiy "age to hereof the foreign settlements rivatlly die 10. the pol fovttroliing" group, as has orth' above.
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