The Archive · 1927

Mr, Ramsay Macdonald's View

Jan, Mr, Ramsay Mucdonald, in an article in the "Socialist Revids says that the Canton Government is naturally in a truculent mood. It believes it has beaten us. The Cantonese are not likely to take us at our own valuation and we must put ourselves right with them, but a mere scuttle will not do that, The old conditions in China imposed on us obligations which must re= main until we are relieved of them by negotiation, "Canton must be assumed to have common tense and once it is assur by the genuineness of our desire to come to terms on the basis of a frank recognition of China's nationality and right to self-government it will surely not object to di

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