The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-01
CHINA'S MINISTER
AT WASHINGTON
TALKS PLAINLY
Revolution in Orient
Can't Wait on Cal
By LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press.)

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revolution, backed by an awakened
working class Of 30O,00O,OOO out Of
her 40O,0O0,O00 people, will not wait
for Secretary Kellogg or any other
foreign cabinet minister to tell it
what it may do.
That's the substance Of a diplo-
matte statement made to the Ameri-
can press by Sao-Ke Alfred SEE, Chi
nese minister in Washington, after
he had studied the Kellogg statement
Of sympathy toward China, and af-
ter SEE had read a resolution adopted
by mass meeting of Chinese in
New York. This resolution was the
voice of the revolution, spoken by
men who have been aiding the Can
ton government by their weekly con-
tributions from all around the world.
1t Belongs to Them.
What business is it of Kellogg, says
SEE in effect, to talk Of granting
things to the Chinese in their own
country. The Chinese are taking
back what belongs to them. They
ask permission from nobody. The
time has come when foreign govern
ments, if they want the thing done
politely, must stop sending navies
and armies to China and must send
notice that they have absolutely sur
rendered their claims of special priyi-
leoe aytra-territorial rights and con-
cessions there.
SEE is in position which the
Washington administration tolerates
only because it fears that any change
would be worse. He is minister from
government at Peking that died a
year ago, and he speaks for the Can
ton government of the revolution
which Coolidge and Kellogg regard
as too working-class III its program
to be recognized.
Tired of Pious Wishes.
81 can convey any message to Han
kow or Picking that the American
government is ready to send says
SEE, shut we are tired of pious wish
es. We want foreign governments TO
name their delegates to conferences
for negotiation OF new treaties that
will be based on recognition Of equal
ity of rights and treatment between
Chinese and foreigners. We will ne
gotiate with each power separately,
not collectively. And we 60 not want
to waste, times repeating old and fu-
tile talk. That is why we ask that
the foreign powers each name their
delegates; China is as much inter-
ested to know the composition of
these foreign delegations as they
seem to be anxious to know ours"
Aroused by the warning issued by
the Chinese in New York, due to the
landing of the first British reinforce
ment troops at Shanghai, SEE de-
clared that the sending Of "fleets,
troops and marines in numbers great
ly exceeding the needs for purely pro-
tective purposes" is provocative and
dangerous" If foreign powers treat
China On friendly basis, he added,
their people in China will be protect
ed to the utmost power Of the auth
critics. But the foreign powers must
avoid even an unintentional act of
provocation to the Chinese people
just now.
China Holds Whip Hand.
Washington officialdom had not
expected these rough words from the
genial and wealthy DR.. SEE. 1t has
walled out the Soviet revolution, but
with China covered with American
missionary enterprises-none Of them
at Chinese invitation--the situation
as to a blockade of Chinese radical
ism is different. China's millions Of
workers hold the whip hand, thru
their nationalist government, because
the powers, and especially America
cannot simply walk away and de
nounce them as enemies of civiliza-
ton. Washington must deal with
China as an equal.