To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cinwa Dany News"
Suy—Whoever reads through the "Christian Scientist Monitor's" edi torial reprinted in your column on. Sunday, June 23, must feel grateful, 'The issue which' the war in Europe involves is presented decisively and clearly, Any one who remains differen, toward the way must be enlightened, finding food for thought, 1 find in' the editorial support to my thinking which T have held since my last visit to Europe in 1925, There are reasons for Germany to assume leadership in the world—in human Progress and international "polities. That leadership may equal 10 oF even outweigh others and it can be attained without war, slowly. but, surely, And. leadership, as 1 cons ceive, is both necessary and. desir= able from every high point of view but not domination which implies #0 much terrible enslavement. and des-ruction, It is painful to see Germany Adopting a policy for domination, My thinking runs in the same tine when T face the Far Eastern situa tion. 1 may claim to be a_ pacifist pacifism, however, cannot be drawn to mean submission to the domination of brutality. Here, the Far East, 1 believe, even leading: people have ho objection to a leader= ship, but none is willing to be dominated, In regard to China, there are several records of ation rule, but there is no record of alien achievement and benevolence which had ime proved civilization or culture, nut 10 say uplifting the Chinese mind, Con quest breeds hatred, 'The lost China, whatever it may be, ix a loss to the world, whoever may' dominate it, At present I cannot bear seeing the ruthless and endless destruction of life, property, honour, liberty, and pursuit' of happiness' wherever T go.
Those who play and direct power politics are often blind, "They repeat mistakes, and commit the same crimes Of past "centuries, What a pity it is that they do not read his fory—as 1 dol It must be very bad to any nation, I dare say, that their sympathy is deadened toward human suffering, and war against another fellow-being is a. pleasure. And it must be worse that nations are Jed and glorified to become robbers and murderers—in war, Shanghai, June 24,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.