Ina lengthy address Mr. Julean Arnold said in part: "During the fearly months of 1037, prior to the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities, China was well on the road to modernization. The country presented the world a most alluring picture of potential trade prospects. because fof the rapidly expanding ramificaions of the vast modernization programme, upon which it was launched.
was affecting every aspect of Chinese life. There was no section of the country, which was not feeling the stimulating influence of the new order, portending a regeneration involving the destin quarter of the hum Stage of the world's history. There were signs, of death and destruction everywhere, he said, adding that the world would need youth who knew how to do' things. A great responsibility rests on all today and unless "we shoulder it willingly we would place in mortal danger our way of Tige and sacred cause of human free. dom. If we fall in this responsibility," he declared, "we would fail the generations that went before us and posterity.
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