The Washington herald., 1921-11-23
CHINA HELPLESS
WHILE ALLIES TRY
TO SAVE NATION
Great Britain Expected to
Share Burden With
America.
By MARK SULLIVAN.


Both Great Britain and Japan will
agree with US on all the essential
things that must be done to main
tain China's integrity.
But the saving of China would
be much easier IL China were her
self IN a better position to help us
DO the saving. China is torn by
civil war. That condition Is as
much cause for pity as for blame.
The fact that a nation is involved
In civil war cannot be permitted to
De an occasion for other nations to
take advantage of her. We have
been involved In civil war ourselves
In fact, II was while we were weak
ened by civil war that France tried
to steal a march on US by setting up
Ia King in Mexico. AS soon as our
domestic troubles were over, we
turned our attention to that, and it
was settled. g.
Faction DiaeIaims ENJOYS.
Nevertheless. It Dis most unhappy
that China at tA2 moment should
be SO unable tosAeIp US in what we
are trying to do-D 1t is even diff
cult to be certain to what extent
the Chinese who are here for the
conference yeally represent China
There is a strong faction in China
which claims that this delegation
does not really represent that ma
tion, and announces that they will
not be bound by what the Chinese
delegation. now in Washington. does.
Also no one can look upon these
Americanized Cinnamon, who are in
Washington now. without being a
little disturbed as to whether they
really represent the heart OF China
They wear American clothes, they
talk English almost too fiuently,
and most of them spent their years
OF education either in Europe or
America Some of them. 1t is taken
for gr& uted. are Christians. One
wonders occasionally to what extent
they truly represent the ancient cuI-
ture Of the 400. 900. 600 people who
compose the Chinese race.
Would Doubt Loyalty.
II an American had gone to China
as a boy, If he had received his
education in China, il he came back
TO America wearing the Chinese ma
tional costume. and IL IL were ap-
parent that he had taken kindly to
the religion of China-under these
circumstances we would hardly rec
William Allen White the other
day printed an amusing picture of
the most conspicuous of the Chinese
delegates. Mr.. Wellington Koo. He
is easily" writes Mr.. White, the
best dressed man at the conference,
and delights in a certain festive
pink shirt, which he tones down
with the most correct and sQmber
black coat and trousers, cutting
what we Americans west of the
Mississippi River are pleased to
call a 'nobby' fashion" Mr.. Koo
is very sophisticated, very smart
and very up-to-date; but one Won
ders a little is he really Chinese in
his heart and in his culture.
Puts Burden ON U. s.
However. all this is immaterial.
No one doubts that the Chinese
delegation is working for the inter-
ests of China, and that the program
they have laid down is for the good
Of that ancient kingdom. The diff
Guilty is that the present state Of
China puts the whole burden OF
saving her chiefly on the shoulders
of the United States. AS between
Nhe other two big nations. Great
Britain and Japan, the latter has
always been universally charged
with having selfish and aggressive
Intentions toward China The
Japanese say. however, that they
are ready to abandon their old atti-
tude and help us rehabilitate China
in the way that is best for China.
1t can be accepted with a good deal
of confidence that as the discussion
of China ripens, Japan will be
found accepting, without too much
reluctance, the American point of
view.
British policy about China has
been somewhere midway between
the American policy aud the Japa-
nese policy. Great Britain is ready
to Join us in saving China, IL that
is the program to which everybody
else agrees.
Restrained by Alliance.
On the other hand. if the program
IL to exploit China, Great Britain
purposes to be in the race. Great
Britain would probably have Joined
in the disposition to save China
at ar earlier date. and with more
heartiness, IL she were not a little
restrained by the Anglo-Japanese
alliance The worst thing about
that alliance has always been that
n prevented Great Britain from
standing with us as Otter as the
British people undoubtedly would
prefer to stand with us in main
tanning China's integrity. Under
cover of the Anglo-Japanese al
liarce Japan has Always been able
to take bigger chfhees in violating
the open door than she would other
wise have done.
However. that is all a thing of
the past. The Anglo-Japanese alli-
ance will go by the board. either
formally or through process of
obsolescence. America isn't so
deeply concerned in having the An
vlo-Japanese alliance formally ter
minated as is commonly assumed.
The alliance will expire naturally
md will be superseded by the agree
ments very soon to be arrived at in
the conference. Those agreements
will consist almost wholly of the
American program What America
proposes about China will be ac-
.epted in its essence by Great Brit
,in and Japan. That will be the
md Of the conference. so far as Far
Eastern questions are concerned.
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