These treaties thus represent. eateflly developed and matured Me {Smational policy intended, on the tone handy to. assure to all of the sortrating partie thet akin and Interests Sn'and with regard. to China, and" on" the' other hand, fsruré to" the people of China' the Tallest opportunity' to develop with jut moleration the sovereignty and Independence: recording. to. the mor tire and enlightened Standards fievea'to obtain among the people for the earths" "At the. time: thi treaty was signed fe yas known that China was engaged nan avtempe fo'devclop the free inatituttons of seltgoverning republic afte, her Tecent revolution from an autocratic form of government, that she would Fequive many" years' of both evonotit and' political fort to the and that her progress. would neces tarily be alow. the treaty was tis covenant of self-denial among the Fumatory powers In deliberate. Te-nunciation of any policy of aggression which might tend to interfere faith Vhat development, Tt was bee ievedy andthe am hate hickory of the fievegpment of "the "Open Door Pole? reveal that faith, that nly sch process undes the prose er such am agreement cold th Follest interest, Not. only" of Chin ut'ot all nations which ave inet course with her, best be served, its report' to. the. President announcing this treaty the Ametiean delegation, headed by the then Secretary of State, My, Charles Ey Hughes, said, "It is believed that twenty the Open Door last. been made. the course of the the treaty the chairman of the British delegation, Lord Balfour, had stated "The British Empire delogae tion, understood there was representative of any power around the table who thought that the el practice of empires of interest was ther advocated by any gover! ment, or would be tolerable to this Jconference, So far as the British Government were concerned, they had in the most formal manner publicly announced that they frarded this practice as utterly appropriate to the existing. situntien.
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