To the Editor of the "Nomtu-Cutxa Dany News"
Sm—Your Leader of to-day's date fanent British: Apathy relative to the coming Election, was to my mind a part-eulogy of the Japanese and their lection ardour as contrasted with the British Electorates' apparent. indifference. Have you ever troubled {to seek the reason of this indifference? would say, in part, that it is chiony [due to the' spirit of condescension which is so manifest in the attitude adopted by the three British organizations to which you refer, when dealing with the ordinary rank and file.
"They ure well-provided with machinery for giving their views an opportunity of expression", you write, Ibut, do they? I think not! The well-worn, expressions "Convention" and /"Constitution" also get honourable Imention, but strange to say the co-[relative of these words "un" is even unplaced. But isn't it unconventional jand unconstitutional for Candidates. lelect to seek election without even ering "the Public what they stand This prefix "un" could be adopted! {to quite a multiple of words having jo. direct bearing on the situation; unsaid—the last. being the chief reason for the genera! for, so much was left unsaid which might have been told to advantage.
It it were possible to obtain a drop Jot an elector's blood for analysis tt would probably require a magnificaon of 1,000, ere the baccili of an election germ were found, This indifference, too, might be explained by a well-known psychological fact, that a man will fight hard to obtain something desired but having got possession of it, will lose interest, until another fight looms in which he fig threatened with extinction. Was this the underlying motive' which actuated the BRA. in circularizing their members through the various Societies? Was it just another straw showing which way the wind, is blowing?
The British are too prone to rely jupon the Biblical quotation, "The meek shall inherit the earth" or, at jarly rate, that section of the British [people who are domiciled in Shang-[hat appear to think so.
According to an old Mostem belief, when the Day of Judgment Is-near, ithe Angel Israfl will blow " three lasts upon his trumpet, viz, Blast Jot Confusion, Blast of Inquiry, Blast Jot Resurrection, It is so be hoped that the SMC. election,. of 1935 will sound the Blast of Resurrection, in so far, as it relates to the lack of interest of the British Electorate.
This letter Is in no way conde tory of the British Residents en masse, but is merely a pointer to the British Residents Association with their fatiliated Societies, showing the way, that a reversal of policy is necessary, if the British interests are (o be maintained in the lead here, Shanghai, Mar. 21
De Proruwois,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.