Further, China itself has in the five years of the war undergone great changes. Outwardly, to be sure, she bears an appearance of disorganization, but underneath there flows. a new and powerful current of nationality, a spirit' fostered—by the great and influential student bodies, by many earnest intellectuals, former pupils of American missionaries who are now giving their lives to develop China from a people into a nation. So that, as the Powers recognized, it was no longer a "slumbering
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