The fight for the republic in China . The Peerless Lake of the Summer Palacj: Near Peking. AxoTHER View of the Peerless Lake of the SummerPalace iVear Peking REPUBLIC IN CHINA 139 could not be shaken off or the political threat adequatelyhidden. There is an arresting piece of psychology inthis. The conviction expressed in the first portion of theMemorandum that bankruptcy was the rock on whichthe Peking administration must sooner or later split,and that the moment which Japan must seize is the out-break of insurrections, is also highly instructive in viewof what happened later. Still more subt
The fight for the republic in China . The Peerless Lake of the Summer Palacj: Near Peking. AxoTHER View of the Peerless Lake of the SummerPalace iVear Peking REPUBLIC IN CHINA 139 could not be shaken off or the political threat adequatelyhidden. There is an arresting piece of psychology inthis. The conviction expressed in the first portion of theMemorandum that bankruptcy was the rock on whichthe Peking administration must sooner or later split,and that the moment which Japan must seize is the out-break of insurrections, is also highly instructive in viewof what happened later. Still more subtle is the man-ner in which the ultimate solution is left open: it isconsistently admitted throughout the mass of reasoningthat there is no means of knowing whether suasion orforce will ultimately be necessary. Force, however, al-ways beckons to Japan because that is the simplestformula. And since Japan is the self-appointed de-fender of the dumb four hundred millions, her influencewill be thrown on the side of the populace in order tousher into China a new era of prosperity so that Chi
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