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acres to the products which we car
sell abroad: Tea, silk, bristles, tune
Oil.
Those sales abroad bring me to
industrialization.
Obviously, we must buy abroad at
first, and in great quantity, to get
our industrialization going.
The more we sell abroad, the more
we can buy the machines we need
But, If we must wait to pay cash
for our needs, the process will be
extremely Slow-and during that
long period the peace of the Orient
will hang in the balance. We will
not be able to play that role OF
benevolent policeman to which we
have pledged ourselves.
Therefore we are looking to our
Allies for help, and most especially
We look to the United States for the
machines we need. If we get long
term credit on easy terms we feel
with the patriotic fervor and the
self-denial which has been built UP
In our six years of war; we will be
able to repay in full.
Prefer Democratic Course.
There is another course: The one
Russia took Is years ago, when she
found it almost impossible to gel
outside aid. She demanded that
her people tighten their belts, &c
to work, and by their self-denial
turn out products which could be
traded abroad for the commodities
Russia had to buy in order to in
dustrialize.
Russia did it with rigid state con.
troll. I believe China can do the
same thing. But it would result ir
somewhat similar state control
and China is one of the oldest be-
levers in democracy.
The United States, In her period
of similar development, you will re-
member, was offered the easier
route by European financiers: She
was developed through investments
from England, France and Holland
China is rich in raw materials
which point to the possibility OF
developing seven industrial areas
which I have proposed, similar to
the American areas around New
England, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Biz.
mingham, and now, Seattle
To give you an idea of one Chi
nese area, the northeast:
1t has 100000 population anc
produces wheat, soybeans, leather
timber, coal, iron, manganese, alu.
minum, gold, petroleum and salt
Take South China, with $1,000 ,00(
people; IL produces rice, sweet pota
toes, sugar cane, silk, tea, leather
coal, iron, manganese, tungsten
antimony, molybdenum, salt.
Factories Near Raw Materials.
I believe each area should builc
factories which will process its owr
raw materials. For instance, textile
and clothing mills would vary with
each area South China shoule
have silk mills; Central China
which raises fax should produce
linens; North China, with its cot.
ton fields can weave cotton textiles
and the northwest with its sheer
would produce the wool.
We hope to regionalize all thu
industrial plants in the same way
Take the northeast iron and stee
plants which can be used to turr
out the -four mills to process thu
areas wheat, and those in the south
which can turn out the implement!
and mills needed to harvest ant
polish the south's rice crops.
All of this depends, of course, OF
the development of transportation
which is now so poor that Who'll,
areas in the northwest and south
west are left undeveloped, despite
, the crowding In the east, because
there is no easy way in and out.
The greatest boon transportation
can give lis, of course, will be relic
from our historic famines, which
were not SO much national foot
shortage as they were the inabilit.
to move great quantities of foot
from areas of plenty to the famin
belts.
These tremendous plans hav
necessarily forced China's leader
to consider a policy toward foreigl
loans; more especially since we hav
heard the usual skepticism among
those able to loan.
The long history of foreign in
vestments in China presents livel.
picture of struggle for special politi
cal privileges. Japan and czaris
Russia, themselves debtor countries
even went to the extreme Of Dor
,, rowing in Western countries II
order to invest in China for politica
reasons The disintegrating effec
on China can hardly be overesti
mated.
The recent abolition of extrater
ritorial rights by the United State
and Britain goes long way to abol
, ish old suspicious, but China will NJ
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