In conclusion, the opinions of two foreigners, one an Englishman, the other an American, concerning the situation as it then appeared, are worthy of quotation. The first is Mr. Putnam Weale, for many years a correspondent in Peking, and author of several standard books on the Far East. Like a solid piece of iron which binds the nation together is its immense, majestic, abiding common-sense. I have observed a great deal of this spirit while I have been here in China. . . . No one can reach the limits of China.
China is the place of the future.
It must be a republic to obtain results. What the old flag has done for America, the Chinese flag can do for the Chinese people. This was the situation in China when the announcement of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare was made to the World.