June 17.
In 1924 Dr. Sun Yat-son, the Father of the Chinese Republic whose writings are re~ garded by Kuomintang circles in both Chungking and Nanking as the gospel of the Chinese revolution, published a series of lectures he had delivered in Canton under title "San Min Chu 1." of "The Three At the was in somewhat of a backwater, and its supporters were suffering so keenly from disappointment over the outcome of the Versailles Peace Conference and the Wash~ ington Conference that there was a tendency to swing over to Soviet Russia, then actively preaching the doctrine of world communism. There therefore frequently recurred in Dr. Sun's lectures indictments of the "imerialistic" Powers, among which he_mentioned Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Moly, The then recently defeated Germany was not included, as it would certainly have been were Dr. Sun alive today. For Dr. Sun identified imperialism with, aggression. "What is imperialism? he wrote. "It is the policy of aggression upon other countries by means of political force,' or in the Chinese phrase, long-range aggression." In short, exactly the policy followed by the Nazi government since the seizure of Austria, the rape of Czechoslovakia, the invasions of Poland, Norway, Holland, and Belgium.
In the same work Dr, Sun made an uncannily accurate prophecy of what is happen-Ing in the world today. It was not made in reference to the: resurgence of Teuton barbarism, but nevertheless applies 30 accurately that it is worth quoting. He said: HAs I study the forees in history'and foresee he tendencies of the future, I am convinced
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