. The fight for the republic in China. ly two million Mexican dollars. Para-doxical as it may sound in a country notoriously hard-pressed for cash, monetary considerations played nopart whatever in convincing the Peking Governmentthat the hour for action had arrived; nor again was thereany question of real hostility to a nation which is so farremoved from the East as to be meaningless to themasses. The deep, underlying, decisive influence wassimply expediency—the most subtle of all political rea-sons and the hardest to define. But just as Britain de-clared war because the invasion of Belgium b
. The fight for the republic in China. ly two million Mexican dollars. Para-doxical as it may sound in a country notoriously hard-pressed for cash, monetary considerations played nopart whatever in convincing the Peking Governmentthat the hour for action had arrived; nor again was thereany question of real hostility to a nation which is so farremoved from the East as to be meaningless to themasses. The deep, underlying, decisive influence wassimply expediency—the most subtle of all political rea-sons and the hardest to define. But just as Britain de-clared war because the invasion of Belgium brought toa head all the vague grounds for opposition to Germanpolicy; and just as America broke off relations becausethe scrapping of undertaking after undertaking regard-ing the sea-war made it imperative for her to act, sodid China choose the right moment to enunciate thedoctrine of her independence by voicing her determina-tion to hold to the whole corpus of international sanc-tions on which her independence finally rests. In the. \ ..i* .. »*?,
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