The Archive · 1941

China's Great Statesman

Chinese have a paradoxical saying to the effect that as great men are the makers of great events im history, so great eventé in history im turn create great men, During the sixth century before Christ, the chaotic state of the feudal period im China created our greatest philosopher, Confucius. At the end of last century, the decline of our Manchurian dynasty created, in the person of Dr.

Sun Yat-sen, a evolutionist who later founded the Chinese Republic.

More recently, our ers,, Thereafter, accompanied civil war and foreign invasion, which we term ne yui wei fan or by Lieut.-Gen, D, K, Macleod, sorrows within and troubles without,' created our national leader British Commander-in-Chief in Chiang Kai-shek, who has achieved the almost impossible task Burma, he left for Lashio at the Burma end of the Burma-of uniting a country of 450,000,000 people, and resisting success-China Road.—Reuter. fully, for more than four years, the determined aggression of a well-prepared, well-equipped and powerful neighbour, says Mr.

S, I. Hsiung in "London Calling."

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