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All these factors operated against
the fulfilment of the Lugard plan, but it
need not have failed, as it largely did,
if imagination had been shown in the
financing of our own University.
In the
methingto
University field Britain has some give that can stand comparison with and
hold its own against, anything in the world, that this is so is realised in China as elsewhere (station).
It is not too late to recapture lo t
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ground.
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Several of the factors numerated
above will not operate to such a marked extent in the post-war world. Already there is evidence that the Chinese people feel that
they owe a debt to Britain and that there of the mind
must be aspects/the attitude
nation
(
thed
which produced
the spirit of 1940 which have much in common
prove akin to
with and might well reinforce their
their own.
The first aggressive phase of the national
rejuvenation is giving place to something
deaper and calmer and more mature.
New
etly conceivable
China is sure of herself as she never was
before the war. She has proved herself
in modern crises and her aggressive
neighbour is, chiefly through her own
resistance, no longer a menace. Knowing
what she is and has herself, she can afford
to look to her late allies for much she
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does not possess without risk of loss of face