Politically, too, Manchoukuo does: not appear to have made any great advance. There were no signs of that famous homogeneous fusion of races about which one heard so much four years ago. The Chinese certainly do linet love the Japanese any better than they did then," And the harmonious ce-operation of the different races on equal terms remains a mere idle Gream of the far distant future, even then.
In one respect, a rather unexpected one, a new political tendency appears to be making considerable headway in. Manchoukuo today. This is the colonial—or perhaps, to be modern tone ought to say dominion—fecling that appears to be growing among the Tapanese residents, a feeling of being something quite different and apart from the motherland, These sentiments were very noticeable in the open and hi ism of the doings of the army people, and the demand that they wanted to be left alone to run the show themselves and hot inthe interests of cither the apitalis(s in Japan or of the Kuangtung Army. Some observers even believe that, if as a result of the war in China, any serious trouble were to arise in' Japan, Manchoukuo might Become a really independent state under some Japanese freebooter.
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