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“INTERVENTION IS A
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928.
Both are delusions, skilfully devised and propagated by the Westernised section of Young China for its own'ands. Lord Peel referred to them both, in justifica- tion of the British Government's policy of non-intervention. He took credit for the Government's "pres- cience," in that they had recognised J. O. P. BLAND SPEAKS OUT. this raing tido and endeavoured to
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meet Young China's aspirationa It may therefore reasonably be in of thought has learned nothing from ferred that the Foreign Office school the ghastly failure of the experi ment in patient conciliation
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It may safely be asserted (writes Mr. J. O. P. Bland in the London Morning Post) that the attitude and sentiments of the principal speakers at the recently held dinner of the China Associn- tion were a source, of profound disappointment to those who for
At the best, it seems, a halt may some time past have felt increas- ing concern, not only for the now be called to further experi security of our fellow-countrymen ments of the same kind, but the In the Far East, but for the piti-oficial attitude of unconcerned ful condition of the Chinese neutrality is apparently proof people.
against any appeal to elementary! instincts of humanity. We shall We made bold to hope that those continue, it seems, in the "almost of recognising whose duty it was to speak on impossible task behalf of the Association and of chaos," nil heedless of the silent the British Government would misery of its innumerable victims,, face the realities of the situation. We shall continue to shut our eyes We thought that they would utter to the self-evident fact that there something which might be taken can be no hope of the Chinese find- as a sign that the civilised Powers, ing away out of their present amic-1 as a matter of simple humanity, tions, unless helped from without. are prepared to consider seriously It was, no doubt, inevitable that the necessity for united remedial Lord Southborough should make a action. We hoped, in fact, for respectful gesture in the direction! some authoritative pronounce-of the fetish of Chinese Nation. alism, but as regards the possibil- ity of measures to relieve some of As I listened to Lord South-the sufferings of the Chinese peo- borough and Lord Peel I longedale he was ominously silent. for the magic carpet of Tangu to Some there are to-day who be transport this brilliant assembly lieve that amicable relations and to China, and there give those who goodwill in trado' shoud be sought! need it a glimpse of things "as by a wholesale surrender of our they are, say, in the city of Chang-Trenty rights and extra-erri- te-fu, where not so long age some torialised Confessions. Yet the 50,000 men, women and children wise words which Sir George were savagely, butchered by the Staunton used in 1816 to dissuade "Christian General's" troops. Lord Amherst from prostrating
himself before the Chinese Court re If one may judge by the main as true to-day as they were speeches delivered on this occn- then. The result of the disgrace sion (wherein was no mention of thus purchased, he said, "would any such distasteful things), it have fatally shaken that confidence will need something in the nature which we have with considerable of a miracle to dispel the illusions success established at Canton, in and to clear our minds of the poli-the firm adherence to prinsiple tical cant, whereby the doctrine of which distinguishes the British non-intervention, the facile path character, a confidence which is of laissor-faire, have beer our beat ally in all our differences justified in high places since the with the Chinese, and probably. Washington Conference. From our only preservative against such
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which painful reflection my mind a systematic oppression on the part went back to the days of that of the local authorities as would august assemblage of the Treaty necessarily terminate (in the pre- Powers; to the eloquent exposition sent state of British feeling) in a of noble sentiments and benevo- rupture of intercourse between the lent purposes whereby the gospel two countries."
to be of non-intervention was blessed and to the deep solicitude professed by all concerned for the true welfare and peace of China.
False Theory.
Adhering to Principle.
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By firm adherence to principle, by putting the vital interests of the Chinese people before, the selfish| To those who possessed any know.interests of the political factions, and by the adoption of certain ledge of the history and social economy of the Chinese people, of concerted measures (not necessar- their utter incapacity to establish extensive or expensive), toi an effective system of representa- restrict the movements of bandits. Live, government on a democratic and rival forces over certain main
línes of communication, basis, the falsity and futility of the Powers could soon bring about a political theories underlying the great improvement in the deptor- Washington agreements were maniable conditions under which the fest From the outset. Now that these theories, and the hopes built Chinese people at present suffer.
Japan appears to be ready ard" apon them, have been completely willing to co-operate to this end. stullified the statesmen of Christen-
The question, in so far as this dom on both sides of the Atlanticountry is concerned, is, can the are strangely silent."
Press and Parliament be induced Touching this shibboleth of non-to take any serious interest in the intervention, the great majority of matter? It not, there can be no the respectable classes in China-hope of any alleviation of China's the gentry, scholars, merchants, sorrows in the near future, mannal workers and farmers
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