Tus Tuwee Box or Asti—By George Sokelaky. Doubleday, Daren Ca, "New York, GF2a0, China, the customer—that is, the Chinese people—must be satisfied.
He notes that China may lose wars, but must ultimately win by i irthorate, This is not only a brilliant study but a, most readable book." Mr. Sokoisky's style will be recalled by old readers of this journal and it pleasant to know that he has lost none of his pungency or gift for eft political exposition, "He re-Views the whole Chinese scene from the emergence of the Republic and the burden of his theme is the importance of 'Sino-Fapanme cooper. ion tothe progress. and. peace 0 the Far East. fle does not end on fan optimistic note, for he penetra ingly looks to: the' menace of Cot retinism in the inter should be observed in. he explain the organ Chinese" Communist Party in dispassionate language and gives a host fective and. by" no. means Snsympathetle account "of the advance of that party. He sums up the situation thus Chiang Kai-shek alone has grasped the" essential political" struggle China? "itis between Nationalism snd" Communism, He has wweaith of the nation in his struggle by communists. "Ap ithe ie going on with, the Shoutd he Salle the' Ca The futore. of a. China freon Communists in the messins yours of civil warfare, the last week the soundiees of that the light of the happenings of
ymcannot be very well Sokolsky sees in the Tinder Box of Asia the inflammable material which has been brought; to flame by the spark of Western influences. He calls "Protestant Christianity "the most compellingly destructive and. constructive fore fever hurled at China from the West" and he considers that its most efeetive form has been through the influence of America and the wendes of American missionaries. He asserts that the. American missionary has accomplished more in the interests of the Chinese people than any other force during the' past. fifty, years. And now another has taken the field:
Finally the West hag recently gait ened its Pandora's Box and out has' flown. the germ. of Com fnunlam, a subject to which we ahall Soum. address ourselves in Chapter "'Sullee fe now only to refer to! the terrific Intelloctusl, and. aod regale. by the. confusion of de loose upon China. from the Wes trid to. point. with emphasis Tveontestable fact that every. Wester Influence, no matter how conateu tive in intent, has served ava dis. Integenting China, He finds that, cultural unity in China expresses itself in support of foreign movements, and its is the family system, which sas a substitute for govern:
te says: tt is the family, system which order in Chine nie th evident for who But even more than that—by Sendo of humour which elation between time tment. To-day China is cowed morrow she will build a pagoda commemorate" the sinofeation of er oppressor. Thus, the Great, Wall marke the efforts of Huns and Turks find Mongols ta conquer" China and than to" man the Wall, as Chines "keep cut other Huns and Turks and. Mongols But a friendly China can mean much to the prosperity of Japan's Japan can give' China the advan industses, just as a friendly tages of her knowledge of modern economic technique. The argument ig carried further. He saya that isturbod relations between the Chinese and the Japanese can only mean a disturbed market inthe East of Asia and therefore anxiety for the rest of the world, except [Soviet Russia, which, he thinks, is the only country to benefit. from 1o-Japanese friction, Tu the rise of the Kuomintang' the author's own intimate personal acquaintance with th leading figures in the present, or would it be more correct to say the recent, admin fully brief charaeration is use
ter sketches of the Soong family,
matched by' few foreigners. for dnatance, "could "brebaly intimate knowledge. hag its' disadvantages and occasionally: it would seem that the author is apt to allow cial opportunities to upset
ly displays. For anced, judgment, which natural that be should have his
than one possessed of less know-personal prejudices more marked ledge but. greater detachment, Most interesting is his deseription of the intervention of the League into Chinese efforts at reorganisation, It is. to be hoped that these passages in his book will be read with great. attention at Geneva, Although by no means unfriendly to the League, Mr. Sokolsky is highly critical of the manner' in which certain repr sentatives of the League allowed themselves, in some cases inadvertently and in others by misappre: hension which "should" have been avoided, to be drawn into the dubious' atmosphere of political in trigues. He points out with considerable force that the mistake in the main due to. the of Geneva to recognise that in appointing accredited presentatives, to advise the Chinese Government it should have made it jelear that those representatives were expected to have direct access to the. particular department Yoads mainly cone in the activities. Ag it way, they we regarded in China og accredited to ithe head of the Government, and as the result their ability to give
ments was limited. This cute ful advice fo the expert de ig. well brought out in the description of the visit of Dr. Rajehman (of whom Me. Sokolsky has a very high opinion), Sir Arthur Salt and other experts from Geneva! thority, the. vi the bulk of the po fare orderly and "well-behaved except in the regions which are. immediate.
affected by a current civil war "an inevitable. famine, The rigid relationships between father "at the recognition of th fora, the cohesive. force dations have. played Conspicuous role in. maintain Social order amid political anarchy. hina "has een. preserved Instrumente "for national self-per= Detuation have only produced chat No illusions, ho maintains, were entertained. by foreign Powers' garding the actual state of China When they. signed the Washington Treaty. That instrament is" dee: cribed as a Treaty. in Perpetuity, fu agreement of self-abnegation, pact to give China an opportunity establishing herself as a modern tation, The author points out that" this decision onthe part of the Powers to.allow China to work oat her ows destiny was based on the conviction that the lessons of the Great War showed the folly of adopting any other course: the three Lets tu Nanking: and were cordially Welcomed by. Chiang Kai-shek and.V."Soong. The vest of the gov-foment regarded. the mission as a Scheme gh the part of Chiang" tie the League fu his own interest the into affairs of China: Pos its head," Chia ineloal syppordos, 1. Soong.
rope that may' be proper. pre:
China it is ote Te "the Leagues " "representatives were Chiang's men, they belonged to him and Tot "to"the government." This was. "complicated "by instructions From T. Soong, that the League representatives. should" dear, with ther Chinese, galy' thvough him, For instance, if Sun Fo" wanted the assistance of "Me. Hana In connect Hon with the Ministry of Railways, Met "ate ad to" tond hia Morandum through Mr. Soong, "to
the government could gree. "Ther sich Chinas. of cal rank Chine The Nine Powore Treaty stil stands "Ss the "pianadle, of "the Sirocture of the foreign tights, prt floges, interests and conficts "in Chinn" Aerary quilt of structure, eis" trace-bat_ nevertheless n real Structure involving" bilious" of, el ists of wealth and the future of th Tnegest "number "of "human beings roche together ander one. political cin orien ifthe anit is amorphous, yao a. gleritcation of the iden that" te Holland to strengthen the SConomic position of the foreigacr polities of China, During the next fow months the League will have to delve deeply into Chinese affairs and it will be no bad thing if Mr. Sokolsky's criticisms are taken into account, For he does not consider that, with all its faults, the League has altar gether failed:
"The fact that both China and Japan agreed (o the appointment of
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