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will remain occasions where mere pleasantries' are exchanged, the
good work of Sino-British cultural societies and similar organiza-
tions be greatly impaired, the efforts of zealous British mission-
aries, administrators and others, be hampered? What is more, sincere
appreciation from the Chinese people for the upectacular economic and
social benefits as well as the generosity they have received at the
hands of the British will remain lacking, and, above all, the Chinese
will continue disposed to lend a willing ear to the outside enemies
of Britain and the British people.
llow often have I not witnessed incidents of this kind
before the War -
lift.
(a) A mixed number of passengers reach the ground floor in a
Almost without exception, the British graciously wait for the
European ladies to leave and then one by one they themselves step out,
quite ignoring the Chinese lady passengeru, regardless of their
station in life.
(b) A Chinese lady enters a lift. X, an Englishman, ignores her
presence. On the next floor, a European lady enters and immediately,
out of respect to her, X takes off his hat.
I have seen an annoyed Englishzan knock off the hat of a
Chinese for not taking off his hat in a lift into which a European
lady had entered.
As a result of this lack of minor courtesies on the part
of many British, a type of retaliation, not actuated by personal
animosity, was sometimes met with in buses and trans, when & Chinese,
while refusing these small courtesies to European ladies, would
extend them to his own.