You seize concessions by means of lawless mobs who are directly lurged to these acts of violence by your Cabinet Ministers and tear up Treaties without reference to the other side, who, equally with you, Jmade and' signed them and undertook to abide by their terms till constitutionally altered.
How can you expect foreign nations to take any of your promises seriously? What is the use lof entering into Trecties with you if you are going to tear them up without reference to the other Parties to them at any moment it appears to you convenient to do 80? If national and private contracts fare to be torn up at the sole will fof cither party then civilized negotiations are impossible. folement, that the Northern Armies Who are now taking the field against you would be willing: to talk terms with you. I believe you could possibly unite China, In that ease [you would have a government which Fwould speak for the entire nation, Jand with which Grent Britain and other foreign Powers would be only too glad to trent, By constitutional jmothods I think you could get a revision of the Treaties with hearty goodwill on all sides and could obtain the bulk of your demands, Some of your extreme demands would have to be postponed for a few years, the number of those years depending entirely upon yourselves. By. this you Fwould obtain the respect of the [whole world and the sympathetic Jassistance of all nationals who will be only too gind to be your friends Jand who desire to cultivate on equal terms the best relations with you.
The extremists amonget you will be angry at my" words but the moderate and sensible onos_ wil welcome therm am sound advice, 0 The end, you wil have. to throw your extremists into the discard in any ense, or China will make no progress and will have no standing Jamongst the nations of the earths Lam, dear Br, Chen, Yours for a strong and happy China Epwano 8. Lirrun Norwitustano: na the protest of Canton newspapers against the clusion of Soviet holidays in the Kuomintang red-lotter days, the printers of the city, who are mostly friendly to the extreme section of the ruling party deciared " holiday 7.30 pam, January 21, the third anniversary of the death of Lenin, and Canton was unexpectedly with-Jout newspapers the following day, no previous announcement having been given, MansuAt Sun Chuan-fang contem= plates using his aeroplanes in the Chekiang hostilities, according to Chinese xoports, Marshal Chang Teo-lin recently made him a present of four machines which are being American policy towards China it is} the wish of the American Govern ment that the fact be emphasized that America is ready to negotiate] immediately with representatives of] China relative to. the abandonment of extraterritoriality and the granting of tariff autonomy, but it must} be understood in this connexion tha the Chinese Government must prepared to guarantee protection the lives and properties of American citizens resident in China.
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