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THE CHINA MAIL DOUBLE TENTH SUPPLEMENT.

A Chinese field gun post.

too articulate just at present, they may find themselves put in the position of having to defend their words with guns:

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While that attitude of mind is perfectly understandable, a large section of our thinking people cannot comprehend why the de- mocratic governments still fear to express themselves in practical terms to Japan on the question of her infamies and inhumanities.

After all, we seem to have been left frigidly alone by every de- mocracy, to fight as best we can, with our inadequate equipment, for the principles which the de- mocracies espouse-the sacred- ness of treaties and international laws, and all that—as well as for our own salvation.

One disconcerting thing is that, though we have been deserted, as it were, the democracies seem to be willing to listen with # strangely attentive ear to the demands of Japan that the pow- ers should remain neutral.

Those of our people who ques tion the advisability of our keep-

Chiang Kai-Shek

ing in with the democracies point out that it is the amazing studied neutrality of the democracies that enables Japan, without any... restraint, to continue killing our people, violating our women, and making a wilderness of all of our territory that she has been able to penetrate.

The glum picture of the down- hill progress of democracy paint- ed for me by despondent critics evokes from me an etching of the unbounded sympathy that has been expressed for us by the peo- ple of the democracies. I em- phasise that there has to be very clear demarcation between the people and the governments of the democracies; that we must not be unmindful of the will of many to help, but that we should be profoundly and sincerely grateful for it. This practical sympathy is, in reality, the one reaction genuine international' that offers us some consolation and compensation for what looks like the apparent desertion of us to our fate by each and every one of the democratic governments.

The tragedy is that the govern“, ments of the democracies häve

had, for some time, to bow to the will of Japan because they are afraid of her; because they are still mesmerised by Japan's. (in- sistence that she is, invincible. That is a bit strange to us after what the past ten months of un- equal combat have a revealed. However, if Japan proves herself to be invincible, she will-with the probable unintended acqaie- science and indirect help of the

ocraties

quer Chine, and will, eventually,

and her

leave her foot-prints bomb-prints not only upon the earth of China and the sands of time, but upon the soil and char- acter of many occidentally, con- trolled lands.

However, Shakespeare empha- sises that "reputation is a false imposition oft got without merit,” and we are inclined to wonder a little if Japan really deserves the reputation for invincibility which she has continued to acquire.

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