Mr. G. Unterberger Passes Shanghai, Sept. 1 Manchuria, for many' months a source of contention, was compared with a laboratory in which Japan was registering national change and national evolution by Dr. Ernest Batson Price. in an interview granted to a representative of the "North-China Daily News" yesterday.
After 15 years in the Consular Service of the American Government, Dr. Price, now an associate engaged research for the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, "Md., admitted that the educational field "offered no. possibilities of emancipation from the habit of caution," He explained, in his discussion of Manchuria, that he spoke with forethought simply because he does not wish to place himself in the position of one who must, in honesty, retract his statements, "Hence, it was from a standpoint that he strove to make and to Keep unbiased and unprejudiced that Dr. Price discussed some phases of his three months study of Manchuria. Hig_complete observations will be published as a study for the Page School of International Relations, shall use the term 1 throughout my discussion, smiled, "simply because that is the term used by the people who control it, However, after three months of study, my outstanding Impression is that few people, least of all the Japanese themselves, are agreed as to what the situation is or ought to be. The common belief, flattering in sense to the Japanese, that they are always unified, not only in action, but in'thought, is false. One has only {o be in Manchoukuo a short time to know that it is not true,
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