As a member of the Society of Friends, Henry Hodgkin was a pacifist who was convinced that war is the wrong way to settle disputes and the negation of the spirit of Christ. But he was no doctrinaire. The author of these pages describes the struggle in his mind between Christian principles and a realistic sense of the requirements of a government responsible for law and order. This issue is brought out by the coming of the Defence Force to Shanghai in 1927. Hodgkin writes in a letter I cannot feel the authorities could do other than strengthen the police forces necessary for the keeping of order, and I cannot myself see how, things being as they are, this could have bean done ju any' other way than by the concentration of a certain military force.
Then he goes on to say, in a passage Which may be commended to the a tention of those who would seek historical precedents for their own warlike actions in our own day:
Of course, the great difficulty is that the body of troops may become a war force and not a police force... On the other hand it is perfectly true that the number of troops out here would be wholly inadequate to Carry on a war in China, and that fact might, one would think. show reasonable" people that Brit attitude is not to fight China Social Gifts Those who knew Dr. Hodgkin as an intimate friend will not feel quite satisfied that this social side of his character has been sufficiently illusirated. But the circle of friends at The Limit, in Hungjao Road, like many other groups in many. parts of the world, will welcome such words as these His geniality and good humour, his vitality and infectious gaiety affected every side of life......He was in-Valuable as a playmate. Children Vere thrilled by the wonderful things he could do with Jacko, the glove-monkey. or by his share in more riotous nursery games. His turn for light verse, his skill in cnarades and dramatics—his acting could be ying in its realism!—found full scope in social functions.
For it was as a great human and as a layman that Henry Hodgkin made his appeal to so many. One of his many books was entitled "Lay Reli-
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