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Our American Allies have their own methods of dealing with the Chinese varying from fulsome praise to brutal candour and even the use, or threatened use, of the big stick.
They have had their successes in this country and certainly have made our position here most exasperatingly difficult from time to time. Whatever may be the opposite of our "face" has been all too frequently evident these last few months!. Nevertheless a reaction has now set in. And while we must still proceed with caution and above all avoid offering more hostages to fortune than we need to, it is becoming increasingly clear that, if we will, we shall again be called upon to lend a hand in the slow, laborious, sometimes painful but none the less inevitable progress of the Chinese people towards modernity.
(Signed) L.C. HAY S
(Major-General,
Commander,
British Troops in China.
Copies to: Gen. Carton de Wiart
D.M.I.,ar Office.
D.M. GHQ., India. H.Q., SACSEA.
H.Q., Landforces, hongkong.
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