. The fight for the republic in China. years, and interjected harshelements which could not be assigned an orderly only was a well-articulated State-system suddenlyconsigned to the flames, but the ruin threatened to be sogeneral that the balance of power throughout the FarEast would be twisted out of shape. Japanese states-men had desired a weak China, a China which wouldultimately turn to them for assistance because they werea kindred race, but not a China that looked to the FrenchRevolution for its inspiration. To a people as slow toadjust themselves to violent surprises as are the
. The fight for the republic in China. years, and interjected harshelements which could not be assigned an orderly only was a well-articulated State-system suddenlyconsigned to the flames, but the ruin threatened to be sogeneral that the balance of power throughout the FarEast would be twisted out of shape. Japanese states-men had desired a weak China, a China which wouldultimately turn to them for assistance because they werea kindred race, but not a China that looked to the FrenchRevolution for its inspiration. To a people as slow toadjust themselves to violent surprises as are the Japan-ese, there was an air of desperation about the wholebusiness which greatly alarmed them, and made themdetermined at the earliest possible moment to throwevery ounce of their weight in the direction which wouldbest serve them by bringing matters back to their orig-inal starting-point. For this reason they were not onlyprepared in theory in 1911 to lend armed assistance tothe Manchus but would have speedily done so had not \ ir-. viAXCHi \V():max Gkixdixc; Gkaix
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