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LORD CURZON'S GRAMMAR Lord. Bertie of Thame's
criti- of
an incident in the
POLITICAL RE-BIRTH OF CHINA
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
"DOUBLE-TENTH"
FACES THE FUTURE WITH HOPE AND UNDAUNTABLE DETERMINATION
7. Garrick Street, London, WC2-ABLE SUMMARY PUBLISHED
Notice To Contributors.
"Reflections of the Recent Can- All cosimunications intended for ton Revolt and After, by E. Blcism of the inconsistent use publication should be addressed to Vaidya, Editor-in-Chief, Canton nouns of multitude in Government the Editor, and be accompanied by Daily Sun and Canton Truth. (Na-Bills recalls the Writer's Name and Addresational Publishers, Ltd, Canton). exrly career of Lord Curzon.
(By M. K. Lo) This book is a collection of am: As Under-Secretary at the For- not necessarily for insertion, but Įss a guarantee of good faith. · ticles which originally appeared as seign Office, when he was still Mr. I gladly accede to the request of the Editor of the China Mail leading articles in the Canton Daily George Nathaniel Curzon, he was to contribute a short article on the significance of the "Double Sun: They are gathered together going through a despatch from Tenth" to us Chinese, and my only regret is that, the request in response to the demands of many the British Ambassador in Fekin having come only a couple of days ago, and in view of pressure people who expressed a wish that to the Chinese Yamen, and lit upon of work and of my own obvious limitations for this task, I shall they should be re-published in the passage:
not be able to do justice to this theme. "Your Highness and convenient form. They cover the
your In order to appreciate the significance of the Chinese Excellencies have more than once National Day in particular, it is necessary first to realise the Hong Kong. Saturday, Oct. 19. 1936 period July 20 to August 18, 1936,
intimated to me that the Chinese significance of national days in general. and also included in the book is a
Government
of the were sware
The institution of national days is, politically speaking, a leader which was to have appear-
great importance that has always been attacked by Great Britain to comparatively modern innovation. It may roughly be said to the retention of the Chinese pos- date from the Napoleonic era. Though the idea of nationality session of the Yangtse region, now was principally the work of political philosophers of the 17th and entirely hers."
18th centuries, yet it was reserved for the genius of NapoleonTM to give that driving idea practical effect.
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China Looks Forwarded in the Canton paper on June 5. but was censored by the Chen Chi- tang regime and suppressed. The celebration of the The writer states in his preface "Double Tenth" this year un-that he anus 40 elucidate in an
To this sentence be took strong doubtedly holds more signific-appreciative manner the purely exception.
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ance than it does ordinarily-nationalistic outlook of China's
During the French Revolution: The "Glorious Fourth" of the the "nation-in-arms" for the first Americans is a classical example We are apt to measure our leading statesmen, as represented WHEN THE F.O. REJOICED periods of time in certain well-by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who
Vered at its construction, Cur-time took the place of hired for of such a phenomenon. Incidental- defined stages. With national are making splendid and admiron wrote in the margin:
eign soldiery. This mobilisation of ly. It is the first of a growingly. levents. 25 years, 50
years able efforts to raise China higher "Not grammar! China has not united national sentiment and large number of modern national
been mentioned, only "Chinese pos- indi-in the estimation of the world by epoch achieving a lasting unity in the be-country, by reforming and unify- Just 28ing her financial and
and 100 dually
Fears seem to bring
one
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ginning of another.
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Political Re-Birth
session' and 'Chinese Government, -power enabled revolutionary days. neither of which are of the femin-France not only to drive off half, ine gender. However, I suppose we a dozen European ruzies, but to
Some communities, on the other must not be pedantic, bas mest spread the principle of nationa- hand, institute a national day, not the individual makes an annual systems, by abolishing social abuses! leave Sir C. Macdonald and the lism into every nook and corner
to commemorate a political birth, stock-taking at the New Year, such as gambling and opium Yamen to me bad grammar if they of Europe. It was this movement but to mark the political re-birth so nations and peoples examine smoking, by modernising the in-
please." There was joy at the Foreign which helped ultimately to break of a nation. He Quartorze Juliet their accomplishments at the dustrial and commercial organisa-
was up the multi-national empires of of the French and Double Tenth ends of these periods and, tions of the country, by inculcat- Office when the despatch
jof the Chinese are examples of metaphorically if not actually, ing advanced political systems be published and it was found that the Romanoffs, the Ottomans and
this. open a new chapter in their nefitting a progressive people un- the printer had included Mr. Cur- the Hapsburgs.
But the impetus given by the. It is significant to note that national lives. Hence this dez a Republican regime, by im-zon's marginal notes.
Still greater was that joy when war of American Independence,
practically all the national days rear's "Double Tenth" signifies, proving the means of communica- not a full-stop, but a hiatus for tion, by fraternising with foreign it was pointed out that the Under-the French Revolution and later we know of are not more than two pontifically cor- on the Italian Risorgimento, has centuries old. In fact, many of stock-taking for the nation Powers and even those who are beat Secretary, when that is China And this is pro- on aggression on her land, and by recting the Ambassador's gran-not yet fully run its course, and them came into existence within worse to-day many national minorities living memory of this generation bably the first time for cen-equipping and enlarging her army, mar, had fallen into the
writing, neither of are still demanding political au- Does this mean, then, that before turies that one has been able to navy and air force with the most blander of
tonomy and independence. Napo- the war of American Independence use the phrase with any regard up-to-date weapons, thus to fulfil which are.
leon has made the world "politimankind did not observe a na- for actualities. The exact the mission of the late Dr. Sun
cal-conscious." significance of China's national Yat-sen as laid down in his will) •
tional day? "Self-Determination” day is brilliantly analysed in and so lucidly explained by him in
The answer to the question is special article by Mr. M. K. Lo his 'San Min Cha L" or "People's
Knew Best
To-day the urge of "self-deter-'to be found in the history of printed on this page; there is Three Principles.””
Smith had called on his tailor with mination" (a term taken over by Europe. Before the Reformation very little more, therefore, to
a complaint "Isn't this bill rather
President Wilson from Lenin), and the break-up of the Roman add to what he says there. But
There is in addition an Introduc-steep?" demanded the customer.
You should know best, sir, said lurks in the breast of peoples Empire, communities were bound it is impossible, in this connection which traces the history of the tailor, for it was run up by you" everywhere, so that in the ripe together by religious rather than tion, to lay too much stress on
ness of time we may see them art by political ties. Whatever "na- the work of the one man who the former relations of the Cam
ton and Nanking regimes very ful- We Named Ours “Ditwo," Etc. culating themselves into State-tional days" there were, they were has been able to accomplish ly and formos a valuable prolego- For originality the palm goes hood. This memorable event- is non-political in character. In fact, everything that has emerged
then marked of by them as their in those days large political units from the storm and stress of menon to any study of the subject the farmer who named
as a whole. while an Appendix de- lambs Yvonne, Ytwo,"
National Day. It connotes the like the Turkish and Roman Em-- the country's "growing pains.
within ¡political birth of a group of people pires had many nations When the history of theils some of the more important "Yfour,' and Tfive, respectively.
"What do the ruins of Ancient who were formerly loosely linked their borders, and it would have times comes to be written one Points of the Kwangi settlement.
Egypt really prove?" wonders together. but have become firmly been utterly impossible for those thing in particular will surely which eventuated while the book
writer. Probably among other things, bound together as a single politi-empires to hold a national day, be recognised: that without its was in print.
The articles themselves show that Ancient Egyptian wives insisted cal entity, in a single political or in the modern sense of that term. "strong man" the movement careful and distinguished think-on having a shot at backing the
(Continued on Page 6.) towards Statehood of modern China would most probablying on the part of the author, who chariot into the garage.
is obviously well qualified, no less have been infinitely longer by his knowledge than by his drawn out than in fact it has sympathy, to pablish such an ex- been. Indeed, it appears to mination of recent Chinese his- have gained considerable mo-
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Valuable Selections
mentum with every threat to tory. The book is printed throughout its existence. The work of the in both English and Chinese and is thereby made available to many early revolutionaries should not who might not otherwise have had be belittled. They gave the al-access to the opinions it enshrines. ready crumbling structure of!
It may be thoroughly recommended the old dynasty the first push that caused it to be devoured to all serious readers. by its own flames: in turn they schemed and devised for the building up of something! permanent and worthwhile from the smouldering ruins. But the process of reconstruction has been slow and painful, impeded as it was for years by the very abuses, in other forms, from
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EXPLANATION OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
PERFUMES
which the ancient structure suf-TT is strange that the most dis- fered. The whole fabric of agreeable and repugnant odours) the nation was eaten through known to man are the principal by the selfish exploitation of ingredients of the most delicaté war-lords, each battening on and fragrant perfumes. There are the people, each concerned only probably no worse-smelling sub- with his own devices for his stances than asafetida, valerian, own aggrandisement.
civet, indol and skatel, yet these
To-day China boasts a unity and others about as bad have been of purpose and design which used by perfumers since anti- has very largely been forged by quity and to-day may be said to outside circumstances, but for constitute one of the most india- which, nevertheless, much the pensible assets in perfume indoa- greater part of the credit must try since they give better-grade go to Generalissimo Chiang Perfumes the "life" and tenacity that make them superior. See Kai-shek. One may presiune
authoritative work that the selfish aggression to which the country has been perfumes. subjected in the last few years may of its own accord have effected that coming-together process, which means national
Sunderland Corporation, which cohesion. But even that na has à Socialist majority, decided tural process needed the direct-to ignore officially the visit of ing genius which the General HMS Cairo on Septeraber 15. issimo has brought to bear
upon it. The abstract desires
WARSHIP'S VISIT
to this end of the people needed rowly. averted. The final recal- to be unified and made one citrants were only brought into personified, so to speak "In a the fold a matter of a few single leader who could gather week ago. China Indeed may the threads together and weave now look forward to a future them into a stout strand. Here full of hope. The threat of is where the value of Chiang menace is not yet dissipated; Kai-shek's services to his cou but she is far better equipped try is most
He has now to meet it than ever the
stayed the PPOCENE of dis was. All will wish her well in integration which was only mer-jher struggle.
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