The chapter on Shanghai contains a good deal that is instructive of the affairs of the International Set-tiement and of interest to foreigners in general The authors views ihe political aspects of the whole situation are worthy of study, but it surprising, not to say disappoint-.g, to learn that the Governments of Britain and America "continued their negotiations for the revision of the Unequal Treaties as though Mr. Feetham and his report did not exist" It is well known here that the British Legation in 1931 had initialled an agreement with the Nanking Government practically relinquishing extraterritoriality, so far as Britain was concerned. The author throughout his volume shows disapproval of this political expedient and in one place accuses the foreign governments of having forced it on the Chinese. Yet in the Shanghai chapter he says as regards the earlier days that it was established ible with the Chinese officials and their Government that these western aliens should, as far as possible, be left to <iminister their own affairs." It also rather detracts from the author's defence of the later policy of Britain, in recognizing and endeavuring to meet Chinese aspirations, that "the British Government seemed to have lost their heads" as "British concessions were being retroceded right and left," apparent; from his own point of view, prem tutely and without adequate reason.
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