The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-23
INTEGRITY OF
CHINA SURE
TO Be SAVED
England and Japan Will Ac-
quiesce in America S Open
Door Policy - w on er
About Nation S ENJOYS.
CIVIL STRIFE H!NDERS
By MARK SULLIVAN

We shall succeed. There isn't any
doubt about that. Both Great Britain
and Japan will agree with us on all
the essential things that must be done
TO maintain China's integrity.
But the saving of China would be
much easier if China were herself in
better position to help us do the saw
ing. China is torn by civil war That
condition is as much a cause for pity
as blame. The fact that a nation is
involved in civil war cannot be per
mltted TO be at occasion for other ma
tions to take advantage of her. We
have been involved in civil war our
selves. In fact it was while we were
weakened by civil war that France
tried to steal march on US by setting
up a king in Mexico. As soon as our
domestic troubles were over we turned
our attention to that, and it was set
tied.
Nevertheless it is most unhappy that
China at this moment should be so un-
able to help us in what we are trying
10 do. 1t is even difficult to be GER
tain to what extent the Chinese dele
gates here for the conference really
represent the nation and announces
that its supporters will not be bound
by what the Chinese delegation now
in Washington does.
Wonder About ENJOYS.
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 En-
slish almost too fluently and most
either in Europe or America.
Some of them, it is taken for grant
ed. are Christians. One wonders oc-
casionally to what extent they truly
represent the ancient culture of 400,-
100000 people who compose the Chi
nese race.
II an American had gone to China
as a boy, if he had received his
education in China, if he had come
back to America wearing the Chinese
national costume, and if it were ap-
parent that he had taken kindly to
the religion of China-under the cir
cumstances, we would hardly recog-
nize him as typical American
Dapper Delegate.
William Allen White printed the
other day an amusing picture of the
most conspicuous of the Chinese del
egates, Wellington koo. He is easily
the best dressed man at the confer
ence," wrote Mr. White. "and delights
in a certain festive pink shirt, which
he tones down with the most correct
and sombre black coat and trousers,
cutting what we Americans west OF
the Mississippi river are pleased to
call a "nobby" fashion. His collars
are a bit tempermental and of GER
tain collegian joyOusness that cheers
but does not inebriate,'
Mr. Koo is very sophisticated, very
smart and up-to-date; but one Won
ders little, is he really Chinese in
his heart and in his culture?
However, all that is immaterial. No
one doubts that the Chinese .delega-
tion is working for the interests of
China, and that the program they have
laid down is for the good of that an
cient kingdom. The difficulty is that
the present state of China puts the
whole burden of saving her chiefly
on the shoulders of the United States.
Charge Japan Selfish
AS between the other two big ma
tions, Great Britain and Japan the
latter has always been universally
charged with having selfish and ag-
gressive intentions toward China
The Japanese say now. however,
that they are ready to abandon their
old attitude 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 Ameri-
can policy and Japanese policy, Great
Britain is ready 10 join us in saving
China. if that is the program to which
everybody else agrees.
On the other hand, if the program
is TO exploit China, Great Britain pur-
poses TO be in the race. Great Brit
ain would probably have joined in the
disposition to save China at an earlier
date and with more heartiness if she
were not little restrained hy The
Anglo-Japanese alliance.
Hindered British
The worst thing about that alliance
has always been that it prevented
Great Britain from standing with us
as often as British people undoubtedly
WOulQ prefer N MAINTAINING emma
integrity. Under cover of the Anglo
japanese alliance Japan has always
been able TO take bigger chances il
violating the opeE door than she would
otherwise have done.
However, that is all a thing of the
past The Angle-Japanese alliance will
80 by the board, either formally or
through a process of obsolescence.
America isn't as deeply concerned in
having the Anglo-Japanese alliance
formally terminated as is commonly
imagined.
The alliance will expire naturally
and will be superseded by the agree
ments very soon TO be arrived at in
the conference. These agreements will
consist almost wholly of the Ameri-
can program. What America proposes
about China viii be accepted in its
essence by Great Britain and Japan.
That will be the end of the conference
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