Nation's Attitude Ma de Clear by Marshal: Thirty Million as "Slaves"
That it is completely impossible for modern Chinato abandon Manchuria and meekly acknowledge that came Marshal Li Chi-sen, Military Training and former Governor of Kuangtung statement on. the Manchin issued yesterday. 'Marshal Li described some of the [ha fundamentals of the problems, as envisaged by China, as necessary to fan_ understanding, of this nation's attitude in the present dispute, in order to understand the' at-Aitude which modern China should take towards the Manchurian crisis," eaid. Marshal Ti, "one must. know Gwhtat modern China stands for. As Jong as the character of modern China is not studied as a back-round of current events, no true Sppreciation of the governing tend-endes can be obtained.
"Mathe political observer must ko fin mind the fundamental fact that China became a republic because tthe people' desire of manifesting an Andependent power of action could not any longer be restrained, The student of pol must. remember that the emperor, in Ching, was the agent not only, of a political, but ofa religious force, and. that, in (getting tid. of the emperor, China Bogan the struggle against all forms of superstition.
"The most important of Chinese superstitions was the belief that moral mith atitious "belief in self-abnegation Produced, in Chinese Bilo, 'a kind of passivity' which found its political Expression in the loss of large parts Sour territory. Only when mater-fat'advancement came to be considered ax the basis of moral. pro-Sirthtights as a race and as a nation 098, did China begin to assert her fin relation to other countries, And now. China has come to the point Where passive abandonment of the Ration to exploitation by other ions" has." become impossible not only to the people but also to, by Yar the greatest number of lenders "No emperor will ever again, be weknowledged ax leader by modern
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