'The book commences with a brief preface In which the author says, Amongst other things, that it the Kuomintang (the Chinese, Nationalist Party) survives Ju anything Ike its present form, it will continue: to be menace to' foreign interests in China, This sentence gives the key to the whole book. Another thing he says in the preface is that the Chinese Government, while professing. friendship and. goodwin towards Great Britain and the British people in the hope of securing their moral oF material support, continues to en courage the observance of a National Humillation Day—May 30—in_ which the British are held up to opprobrium In connection with the Nanking Road Sneldent of 1025, This is not correct, for, as it happens, this date was not so observed during the present year by the express orders of the Chinese Government as a marke of China's appreciation of Great Britain's friendship in this her hour of need, Other Figure 'Chapter I is introductory, the author making the claim that De. Sun, fen years after his death, enjoys a far iiredter. prestige among' his fellow" countrymen than over he did when five, "This, no daubs, s true enough, Dut ie it not also true of every great Teader of mon throughout "history And does it now matter what" mise {akes Dr, Sun made when he was five, so long a he stands today for What the does inthe Chinese mind Many foreigners residing in China had ho use for Dr. Sun, and the "same Was the ease with many" Chinese, notably, of course, his political enemies But he. was chosen as the Pather of the Chinese Revolution because there Wax no. other figure in Chinese politics during the early days. of this movement big enough to hold this Tmportant. position.
Is true that Dr. Sun was detniteantiforeign trio, also, that fried with Japan in ls_eampaign {o oust Westerners from China—but since he Was a Chinese, and a Datriotie Chinese, these "activities cannot Feany' be hel aotnat, him." The, empl by "Sareltarius" to prove him {o'be a ruthless, selfseckingg megalotmaniae is neither fair nor Just while the extracts reproduced to bolster up his arguments are manifestly find one-sided, "Much has been Clube lished ow the other side.
Raclat Chi In his chapter on "The San Min Chu Toa Critical Summary," [under the. sub-heading "Nationalism," the ins ite fe cee ing could be fumier from Cantonese,
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