The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-20
China Must Save Its OWnSOul
---IfIt Is To Be Saved at All

China's side in the present Chinese-Japanese
We're being told that we must boycott Japanese silk,
send the Chinese wheat and ambuances and Clothes
embargo arms shipments to Japan, and and so
forth Quite obviously, most of the makers of this
propaganda are building toward time when they can
urge us in so many words to go to with Japan to
save the soul of China.
Only China can it's soul. Other nations have
done as much.
The Irish for example, saved theirs without outside
help. For some 700 years they ground down by
the British Throughout that time they preserved their
racial ideals and traditions, along with their fighting
hearts, and Ireland today is free country in
the British Empire, including England.
Poland was gobbed up by Prussia, Austria and
Russia in three successive partitions 772 1893, 1850
so completely that there Polish nation left on the
map Poland stayed off the map until the end of the
World War in 1918; but it's soul kept alive and
vigorously kicking by the Polish people throughout
those 146 years. They plotted eternaly against their
oppressors they suffered death or prison or exile for
their ghostly country-and Poland is back on the
map again in big and chesty way.
We saved our national soul through the four years of
the Civil War; nobody in to save it for us. For
that matter Southern trip will convince you that the
South saved its SOUL too, and is still saving it. To
hear the Civil War being fought again around
Southern cracker barrel, 70 years after is liberal
education in various things including preservation of
group soul.
Further we've gone in for saving other peoples souls
ourselves on several occasions and luck has been
uniformly bad
We tried to save the Germans ma
we've 1TLeO tiona soul by freeing them from the
GIL c:u Kaiser: were careful to tell them from
~ the start that fighting the
Kaiser not the German people. We freed the Germans
from the Kaiser all right, or helped to- Now the Ger
mans have Hitler We should think their acknowledge
ment would be: THANK you for nothing"
In 1885, we didn't like what the Spaniards doing
to the Cuban SOUL as we'll to Cuban bodies,
so we sailed to the Cuban soul. We took on
the saving of the Filipino soul in the process Neither the
Cuban nor the Filipino soul has visibly improved
We commend these illustrations to the Chinese and
to Americans who tell ought to do something
drastic for "our historic friends the Chinese people,
~ We can't them from their
OUT FTLeN0S own destiny and they aren't
The Chinese" historic friends. We love them so
much for example, that bar
their immigration to this country just we bar the
Japanese. The reason is excellent Much
some of may like Orientals, if they allowed to
work in this country they undercut living standards
emma may be able to save Lset ana lCS soul II IL Will
change that soul rather radically It has been nation Of
primitive capitalists who would fight for almost nothing
but their own individual farms Ancestor woVshp has
crippled progress in China. Scandalous madisrbution
of wealth has smothered Chinese patriotism if
existed Only China change all that. We cannot
Let's hope the Chinese revamp their national soul
and lick Japan since victory for them would taper off
the Japanese to But let's not forget this:
That if China does unite in a strong and disciplined
nation of 400 900 900 people flushed with victory that
nation will be far stronger military power than japan
was.
1t looks as if some day shall have to fight some
combination of Orentals for control division of the
Pacific Ocean. That is the fight toward which our
preparations should be directed-meanng building and
maintenance of the strongest navy in the world. We
should seadfasty refuse to fall for the save-China
propaganda no matter who utters it.