SShanghal, Sept, 17 yesterday's" meating of the Rotary "Club, held at. the Metropole Hotel, Professor Harold 'D, Larswel, ofthe Deparment of Pouica Science fat the Chicago. University, gave a {alk on "World Politics and the Sino "The Professor snid—~The pres ent Sino-Japanese crisis has become foute at a time when civilian Institue tions in the two nations and through: out the world are in desperate need fof curative years of peace and recovery. I the existing emeritency ppermitied to. careon from bad" to Worse, it may be doubted _whather Civilian Institutions ave equal to the strain." The upshot may be the rise ff the garrison state to displace the civilian sate, In the garrison state the generals are'on top, private busl= ness! ceases to exist, civilian oMelals (all into insignificance, 'A grim though ten velled struggle for survival 1s being, woged around the world between civilian sill military "skill" Private business "al ready exists on "sulferanco in. the Sapancse Empire. Tt. has" beer stigmatized a8) unpatriotic' by younger offcors" groups. It this crisis Is long drawn out, if tension Fises tothe breaking point, the rst ielim may be the business men, Should bad deepen Into. worse, the outlook In China for the preservation fand the" strengthening of civilian loments 1s no. better. Should the Authority of the Chinese state Telegated to. the. interior provinces, the hammer of adversity would no doubt beat political institutions. into the rigid shell of the garrison state.
the crisis spreads. the Soviet Union may: become involved. Already the Soviet Union fe vexed. with bitter Internal strife between the civilian leaders of the party and the military Teaders of the Red Army. In' wan, the generals may win Garrison states in Asia would compromise the security and undermine prestige of civilian, institutions rywhere inthe world, "Business Slates like Great Britain, the United States, and. France would suffer & new peril, party supremacy in states Ike Gerniany and Ttaly would endure another blow
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