In a radio broadcast from the fair, Dr. Hu said "the world under: emphasized the importance of the Chinese revolution which had a twofold signifeance. "The racial nationalist revolution threw off the Re-opening of Yangtze London, Oct. 1 "The Times" today gives prominence to a letter from Lord Elibank, urging that all possible efforts should be made to induce the Japanese to re-open the Yangtze.
The letter recalls that during the last "European war China exported quantities of valuable commodities, and suggests the country could do so again if freedom of trade were restored. Lord Elibank emphasises that while' Britain naturally wants the Yangtze re-opened, Japan would be the first to benefit by such a move.
"After two years of war the whole of the Far East urgently needs liquid funds," Lord Elibank comments" and the Interests of China and Japan in yoke of 270 years; the political revolution of the first magnitude was the first successful overthrow the monarchial form of government inthe Asiatic. continent."
Dr. Hu said that the revolution also furnished a condition for intellectual freedom and social and. political change. These blessings of freedom would be better appreciated if a critical glance were cast at the intellectual, social and political life of their closest neighbour, the so-called modern Japan, "When we realize how little freedom is allowed their scholars and thinkers, then we fully understand the great liberation that has been brought about. by the China revolution."—United Press.
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