Finally, I must refer to the fact that China the unwarlike has thrown up in her hour of need a great leader. A leader of first-rate military ability who combines the finest qualities of his countrymen, and commands the respect of the world; who possesses moreover the qualities that will enable him to command the love of whole people when the hour of post war reconstruction comes. Qualities of selflessness, clemency (as shown after the mutiny of Sian) and an understanding that the future greatness of his country must rise from the traditions of her past, from the very soil of China.
We can see China like a great oak tree with its roots deep in the centuries. Cruel winter may wither its leaves, and storms bend its branches, but new life will ever rise from those ancient roots, new boughs will break and flower, fertilized perhaps by Western ideas, but rising firmly and irresistibly from its native earth.
Pkotogrephs of prominent people attending the dinner are reproduced on rage 5 of the Magazine.
Chinese Tradition Well may we wish that the world could take the example of the traditional Chinese patience and courtliness and learn that National Day of
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