May we not be living in paradise? This vaunted immunity and security which we profess for our Shanghai, is it substantially. {founded? Or is its proper analogy to be found in the hectic flush on [the, cheek of the consumptive—Shanghai being the flush—a flush [which inevitably cannot survive the Jdecay of the body. Surely we ean-not be certain of our health of tomorrow, if China's body of rel: tionships with its immediate neigh-hour Japan remains in the unhealthy state we find it to-day.
In the possibility of an open breach between China and Japan, to-day confronted with a least equal to that which trends the possibility of the abolition of extraterritoriality. Are local Britons and Americans alive to that fact? If so, why are they, so clamant on other' occasions {for a hearing, doing nothing to remind their Home Governments of the peril of trade strangulation which will certainly attend such a breach? To those foolhardy enough to believe that military measures in China on Japan's part will somehow redound to a securely founded stimulation of foreign trade here, I not address myself.
'Tam led to refer to your leader The Two Views" in your issue of October 1, and to your correspon dent Mr.' T, Funatsu's comment thereon. I ial emphasis selects the abandonment of the boycott, rather than the instrumentality of the League lof Nations, as the more effective of liquidation of the present impasse in Sino-Japanese relations. I cannot but believe that your editorial assent will be given to my selection of the following from your leader as the essence for pat The seeds of widespread trouble in the Far East are latent in this issue between the countries.
Their sterilization can be effected only by unreserved reliance on the power of negotiation and, consequently, on the ultimate verdict of the League.
Of course we counsel patience on the part of the Chinese people; but it is farcical for foreigners to sug gest that the Chinese Government [should order the abandonment of the boycott. Chinese soil is in the hands, lof the invader—and yet we foreignfers have the audacity to suggest that, the Chinese people are not entitled express themselves on the subject in a very natural and popular, way! Any Chinese Government which at this date ordered and tried to enforce the cessation of the boycott would be chucked out lock, stock and barrel. Let us not, then, ask of the Chinese Government the impossible; nor bring against it the absurd charge that inability order such cessation is justification for our demanding forfeit of {title to be the Government, surely inconsistent that we Britons and Americans, who have tutored China in the notion that government properly. the expression of popular will, should now deny that Rotion scope for expression by our erstwhile pupils Let me remind Mr. Funateu that, strange as it may seem to him, the Chinese somehow feel that, quit the contrary to what he says, it is not China but Japan that "bran. dishes the weapon in the face of her next door neighbour." If he thinks that this is mo general feeling, or that it has no substance, let [assure him that he errs grievously.
will not analyse the cause (since my sim is to show. that that is a fitting function for the League), but the fact is that there does exist fa deep-rooted feeling of grievance on the part of the Chinese people against the Japanese, of a nature 20 serious as to Require a major operation and not plasters to cure. But what "solution does Mr. Funatsu offer? "Nothing more than to require of China that she abandon the Boycott. And he would presume to place to the responsibility of the Boyestt alone, the possibility of Japanese military invasion of the Yangtze. In the face of such an admission of the extent to which (2) area ala ata evidence to the world of the honesty Jot her motives in China?
But to return to my main point. Patently there is a stalemate, Bach, believes the other wrong, and each requires that the other' make the {frst admission. "For what more ex-[press purpose, then, has the League been created other than to ligaidate this stalemate? Writing very re-leantly, Professor Arthur' Holeombe, of Harvard University, whose an: [thoritative voice on China has receiv-Jed wide recognition, hes this to say) Jon the need for the League to exferciso its, functions "in matters affecting China: teresting to speculate open intervention in Por gor you prick her, ould be her motto, that murdered Ca Know thyself"
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agencies. is promising any that could be" expected Powers. "itis evident. that the breaicdown of the Far aster con woul immediately with troops from the occupied ern tory of Chi ina grave concern things in and found "A' Voice From THE Wooo".
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