To the Editor of the "Nommi-Cumma Dany News"
Sim—A foreign resident of Nan-hang writes: "The banks 6f the Yangize are always rather bleak looking in winter, but ever previously have I seen them as they Jare now. For mile after mile we did Jnot see a human being. Villages there were, but deserted city" and "another stretch of lifeless country Is between Wuhu and Nanking. not a soul or soldier to be seen." He continues: "I was told that 160,000 Chinese were killed in and around Nonking® and "all the way down {0 Chinkiang the " river banks bear witness of the devastation of war, numerous wrecked JJunks, launches: hulks, and lighters being seen, but still no life ashore." A Chinese cruiser, one of the two modern cruisers the Chinese owned. [Mes against the north bank of the' river"
Ip reading that, one asks oneself How long will that senseless devastation be allowed to continue? What did Shanghai mean to. leading Chinese residents, If not an oppor= tunity to develop a sense of reality and to perceive" more clearly the. deficiencies of China's cultural characteristics?
Will none of these Chinese leaders lof Shanghai come forward and say: "That is. the mit"
tore patientia nos tra?." In How long is our patience to be criminally exploited?"
Their sense of reality should teli them that a government which leads its people into a war without having provided it*with the means of warfare, is unworthy of that name, They should be grateful to the Japanese for having given them a "Demon-stratic ad oculos" of the value of this so-called "government."
Their capacity. of perceiving the deficiencies of Chinese cultural characteristics should enlighten them suflefently to grasp the fact that now is the time to get into touch with the Japanese in the only way which has always been, and is still, Jopen to China that is through mental should remind them of the original inner power of China, which taught the people to face violence with "mildness and to transform aggressiveness into collaboration. through reticence and calm, Even if Japan were s "bad." as Nanking propaganda has made the Chinese "people believe—which Japan is not—Shanghai Chinese leaders should be conscious of the fact that, China's original psychology has'taught them to eradicate the worst type of "badness" by means of the most spiritualized goodwill.
The very ancient and deep Chinese doctrine of "Yin-Yang" establishes the dogma that only extremes meet and that even the so-called "worst enemy" can be disarmed by perfect! Kindness.
If China would once recover her original spirituality, she would. very soon discover that Japan is far from being "wholly evil" og she is supposed to be. and that Japan is closely. enough related to China to appreciate this spirituality even at the present Hime, when its abandonment by the Nanking Government. has brought about '2 military confit between China ud Japan, Japan would" welcome Chinese spirituality. asthe driving force {ature spiritual. collaboration and acknowledge that economic collabora tion, without spiritual collaboration, 16 unoriental and unsound, Spiritual collaboration "between. China and Japan. leading to economic collaboration, would be the only safe foundation for permanent peace in the Far East. That is what Japanese
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