Oct. 10.
[the Republic the reality and not! ithe mere simulacrum of a stable So diverse and world-wide have been the comments forthcoming institution. Granted that the [on the Lytton Report that further, disunity within the Government is reflected strongly in the particular ism of the provinces, it is still pertinent to inquire whether, in the face of enormous ticul ties, economic, political and physical, the China of to-day cannot ' produce encouraging signs of progress in comparison ion of their significance is indicated. Opinion, other than that of the directly interest-led parties, may be said generally. fo recognise the correctness ithe Report but to insist, on the virtue of patience, combined with acknowledgment of the Commis sion's rejection of the idea of jin China shall be the spearhead lof the move to solution. On the contrary. cautious approach to the task of reconciliation is indicated, When closer study has been el ven to the Report it may well be that concentration on its preliminary suggestion will be We suggest in the first place those days no particular interest in the disease, and. its diminution in the civilised countries of the world during the fifteenth century, when it disappeared to such an extent that it was possible to dispense with the leper houses,. is one of the mysteries of history.
From the. Mediterranean to Japan, from Arabia to Siberia, ity has moved the with twenty-one years ago. The reverting to the status quo. that the Council of the League however, the fell disease has held Chinese Government to dispense inquiry may challenge the im-When the League of Nation: should invite the Governments of its own. China has been the with formal celebrations of patience of those who find com-take the Report into considers China and Japan to discuss a source of infection other anniversary of the foundation fort in pessimism and believe tion, it will discuss it with the solution of their dispute on the jaraas, as for example in the the Republic of China, 21 years ines indicated in the last chapter" that the complicated issues now full' sense of the responsibility Hawaiian Islands and in' Aus-ago to-day. The event will not ing the Far East are best! which must attach to those mem-Here, without difficulty, may be tralia, though there the incidence Pass unnoticed, especially as it explained by concentrating on ber-States whose own interests discerned the inspiration to an fof the disease is not great, and coincides with much ans let sweeping condemnation of the in China are affected by such international conference on the the mystery of its comparative within China and without, for Chinese Government and Chinese decisions as are reached. The: whole problem. Its basis is disappearance: in Europe _is the future of the country. politicians of whatever com: JLytton Commission could deliver, revealed in the Commission's equalled by the present day Western traditions attach ea plexion. The hackneyed device its verdict and make tentafinding that a settlement depends shortness of information as to twenty-first birthday peculiar} of discriminating between the tive suggestions without being Jon temporary international cohow it is caused. The fish diet responsibilities.
In China, too, politician and the people, in order Jhampered by the eventual duty, operation in the internal re-theory put forward at different the age of 21 is more impo:
ant blame the former and weep in jof carrying them into effect. eonstruttion of China. Such a times with some degree of than that which immedi ely,
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